Transport committee  The money will in fact go into the federal government's consolidated revenue fund. This is a feature of all administrative penalty systems, as stipulated by law. This system is no different. We want to encourage railway companies to respect these agreements. Arbitration will ensu

Transport committee  There were 140 submissions to the rail freight service review panel.

Transport committee  Yes, that's right. Railway companies have told us that these agreements usually span one or two years.

Transport committee  The only obligations on the shipper will be operational matters. For example, for the railway to deliver cars to the shipper, the shipper has to be there and ready to load those cars. The shipper would need to have a crew there. If the shipper is asking for certain service eleme

Transport committee  The bill does not contemplate any particular consequences for the shipper in the arbitrated service agreement. If the railway is dissatisfied with the way the shipper is respecting the agreement, then that would be something the railway could address on its own. For example, if i

Transport committee  No, it's not damages.

Transport committee  It's compliance.

Transport committee  No, there's just the final offer arbitration.

Transport committee  The commodity supply chain table is something that the department intends to get up and running this spring. We've been doing some work on preparing for that. The intention is to reach out to the stakeholders to actually form the group in the coming weeks. On the supply chain s

Transport committee  The intention is to make that report, the grain supply chain study, public.

Transport committee  I really can't give an exact date. I know that we expect to have a complete report around the end of the fiscal year, so around the end of March. If it will be, you know, final-final at that date, I don't know, but we do expect it to be pretty close to completion by then. It will

Transport committee  Certainly, we could expect that the commodity supply chain table would provide a forum if stakeholders would like to address issues that are raised in the grain supply chain table. It's certainly the intention that the commodity supply chain table would cover the grain sector, as

Transport committee  The monetary penalties?

Transport committee  We really don't have a sense of that. The government's expectation is that there will be an attempt to respect the agreements that are imposed by the arbitrator. The specific amounts, they go to the consolidated revenue fund. It's a feature of administrative monetary penalty regi

Transport committee  I really can't answer that. I'm not aware.... I simply know that those schemes do exist in other statutes. My understanding is they just go to the consolidated revenue fund. They're not dedicated to particular purposes.