Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague. The problem is that we are no longer dealing with one carrier, but rather with two or perhaps three. So we are negotiating at several levels. These are small shippers in a remote region.
If, after taking the time to negotiate contracts with the big companies, you then have to go to the American parent company that owns a rail segment to negotiate—because they have no other choice but to negotiate with it as well—and if we have no standardized economic measures to assist these small entrepreneurs, they will once again lag behind the big companies, which negotiate as they see fit. The small entrepreneurs are being left to fend for themselves.
As I previously mentioned, some sectors, such as agriculture and forestry, have been left to their own devices.