One of the main opportunities we see in Bill C-49 is the reciprocal penalties piece. We have long been after the ability to get commercial contracts with railways. Every other link in the chain has commercial contracts. We have contracts with farmers, with penalties on both sides for failure to perform. There are contracts with the vessel owners, with the end-use buyer. That's the way business is conducted.
Until now, we've been operating primarily on railway tariffs, so that's a unilateral set of rules and penalties imposed by the railways, supported by statute. Bill C-52 introduced the ability for service-level agreements, but it lacked teeth. There was no ability to include penalties for non-performance in those service-level agreements.
We think that this will go a long way, because now shippers have the ability to try to negotiate penalties. We're talking about balanced penalties here. With regard to the same types of penalties they charge us for certain things, we want to be able to charge them for failure to do certain things. If we can have that in place in something that resembles a normal service contract that you would find in a competitive marketplace, we think that will go a long way.