Thank you for the question, Mr. Chair.
I will address a few of those points. First, we're very proud of the people who work for Via Rail—on board the trains, driving the trains, and maintaining those trains. Without their heroic efforts every day, we wouldn't be able to run the trains that we run today.
I'm a fourth-generation railroader from both sides. I've seen the birth of Via Rail from its humble beginnings to what it is today. Via has gone from providing the same services that it was providing on both freight railroads at the time, to the kind of service that we can provide today.
That is due to a few complexities, such as operating on freight railways when there are no priorities. Passenger trains used to be classified as class I trains. That's gone away with privatization changing the rules, the operating methods and so on. Also, the increase in freight traffic, as I explained before, makes it difficult to inject more passenger trains and to get access to those freight tracks. It's a very complex mix of issues that we have to deal with.
When there's a reduction in several lines—the Skeena line being one of them, as you pointed out—it proves very difficult to restart the service. We need to have the proper rolling stock to run that service. We need to have enough staff, and we need to get the permission of the host railways to operate those trains.