Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my colleague for his warm remarks and comments about my absence from the agriculture committee.
One always needs to be careful when one swings a stick. The two big railroaders in this country, CN and CP, basically have a duopoly. We allowed them to have that. We need to tell them that we might not let them have that duopoly any more.
The government and Parliament have the authority to tell them that they will no longer get to own this line or that line, that we are going to open them up to the United States if it wants to run down those lines. We could set regulations and charge a fee. The government does not always like regulations, and I understand that, but neither does business. I am sure my colleagues on the other side of the House understand that when business is threatened with regulations, it sometimes acts accordingly.
I would remind the government about some of the comments it made to the cellular folks last year to try to generate competition. You used a stick. You might find it helpful to get that stick back out.