Mr. Speaker, one of the biggest irritants in my riding of Saanich—Gulf Islands is the presence of free parking for large bulk carriers in what are called anchorages. The port of Vancouver just takes ships that are partially filled and sends them to wait. As the member will know, the grain farmers suffer from the poor transportation lengths to get prairie grain shipped to the port of Vancouver and efficiently sent to their buyers.
It has gotten worse since we got rid of the wheat board, but one thing that happens is that CN and CP are not prepared. They seem not to know that, every fall, there is going to be a harvest of grain and that they should be prepared for it. There is CN, where the largest shareholders are Bill and Melinda Gates. CP's full name is the Canadian Pacific Kansas City railway. They are not very interested in whether Canadian farmers get their grain to market.
My constituents are very worried about it. One time, we had to ship grain from the Prairies by truck. The price went way up. We almost ran out of feed for livestock on Vancouver Island because we have an extremely bad supply chain. It has nothing to do with price of diesel. It is just bad planning and bad management.