Transport committee  Until the act was introduced, I feel that the government’s intention was to strongly encourage the parties to find a solution. I sat on Mr. Dinning’s committee, after all. We had a couple of dozen meetings in which we tried to reach a business solution on the matter. The issue th

Transport committee  If I may say, I think the railways deserve to get the boot once in a while. We're not perfect. I think that Claude Mongeau said that very well. To answer your question, in a nutshell, there were periods of time in late 2007-08 where our service was not where it should have been.

Transport committee  As someone personally involved in that matter, to the contrary I think the process that's in your law today allows for the railway to indicate the fact that there's no traffic between Bathurst and Moncton on the Miramichi line.

Transport committee  I don't want to prejudge how the province is going to react, but my comment was the following. That process is to be transparent. We purposefully sat down with the province and said here's the issue about the carloads having gone from $16,000 down to $9,000. The big issue is cap

Transport committee  We are working extremely closely—and I'm involved in it personally—with the Province of New Brunswick.

Transport committee  We have a list of lines that is posted on an ongoing basis. It's an ongoing process. We're a lot less than 10 years ago. As much as we can, we work with our colleagues in the short-line industry, with the provinces, and with the municipalities, but ultimately the issue is whether

Transport committee  One of the catalysts of the rail service review was, in our case, about the ability to enter into every port in Canada with a level of service agreement where we exchange information and try to get the details about line of sight, about how many boxes have been landed for more th

Transport committee  Perhaps I could just quickly add something, Mr. Tweed.

Transport committee  As we talked about before, there's the issue also of unintended consequences. Under the bill, if an arbitrator were to impose service that wouldn't take into account, as the shippers would like to see, the network operations, you could be in a situation where a service is imposed

Transport committee  I would not say that. The concern, I feel, is that…

Transport committee  We want to negotiate contracts with customers in good faith. We feel that, if the parties sit down and negotiate these contracts, they will come to an agreement that will result in better service and a better understanding of each other’s needs. Show me an industry in Canada or N

Transport committee  I feel that we have explained to you that customers have a lot of choice. There is another railway company and there are other means of transportation.

Agriculture committee  We can always do a better job in consulting. I'll be very sure about that. For example, there are 13 sites that remain to be listed. We decided we're not going to publish it in some weekly paper. It's going to be in one of the national papers, so it won't be once a week that it w

Agriculture committee  Mr. Bellavance, we...

Agriculture committee  The 53 sites in question are stations that are not being used. Forty-two had not been used for more than two years, and 39 had not been used for three years. This is not a spur-of-the-moment decision. One of the criteria is site use. Do people order cars for these stations? Once