I'm building off Lauren's point. Just for context, many mine sites operate in remote regions, and I'm aware of just two of 37 members at MAC who were able to take advantage of that measure.
Our concern isn't so much about the principle of the policy; it's clearly understanding what the implications are should there be some broad overarching extension across the entire network. Our suspicion, given the rapidity with which the original Bill C-30 was drafted, tabled, and turned into law, is that insufficient assessment was undertaken of what those implications were for the whole network.
I would caution the committee to carefully assess what those implications are and to take a fact-based approach about whether or not that's in the overarching best interests of the network. Principally, MAC doesn't take a view about the merits or the demerits of interswitching as such. We support a fact-based, evidence-based approach to any public policy measure designed to effect change in the rail freight network.