I was lucky in the second week of the constituency break from Parliament, when I and six colleagues were able to travel to Saskatchewan. We saw that partnership between the government and the indigenous communities. They were very grateful for that. I'm very pleased to bring back that feedback.
Also, when I was out in Saskatchewan, we met with quite a few smaller farmers. They were very grateful to see that budget 2023 had some funding for the extended interswitching. The supply chain task force recommended extended interswitching as a way to introduce more competition in the rail sector, which would benefit agricultural producers in particular.
How would it do so and how do we know the traffic would not be scooped up by American rail carriers? That seems to be something that may be important for some of our colleagues to know.