Agriculture committee  Well, I see it as one of the differences; that is how I would describe it. I apologize for bringing up facts, as you convey, that you determine to be excuses. I'm just trying to give the group here the benefit of some of the things that I live and breathe every day out there. I'

Agriculture committee  I have just one point here.

Agriculture committee  We weren't just talking about grain when CN and CP were putting this together. There were lots of associations. Again, part of the challenge on the grain side is that there is legislation there that doesn't pertain to any other existing legislation, that doesn't pertain to any o

Agriculture committee  I'm certainly not saying it's intentional; it's just—

Agriculture committee  That's right. It's vessels, arrival times. As an example, a vessel may be coming into Ridley Terminals. The industry believes it's going to be there on such-and-such a day, and maybe there are issues on the sea and it doesn't get there for two or three days, so the grain stocks

Agriculture committee  I'm not a hundred per cent sure about that. In terms of the shipping, you're saying the vessel—

Agriculture committee  That depends on whether it's a Wheat Board vessel or a grain company vessel, especially if it's non-board grain.

Agriculture committee  That's a good question.

Agriculture committee  The answer to that is no, because most of what we're talking about today reflects western Canada. It's pretty much contained within the western Canadian borders. The decisions are made in the west. I look after the west from Armstrong, Ontario, to the west coast, so the group w

Agriculture committee  I'd like to mention that we seem to be spending a lot of time on this 60% or 70%. What we're saying is that during the week we're 90%, and in some weeks we've been 95%-plus. It's the day of week that we're a little bit out on. If we don't get there by midnight, one minute after,

Agriculture committee  We can only speak for the railroads on this. We don't have a position on it. I'm not really familiar with the proposed changes, and this is not a part of the business that we get involved in at all.

Agriculture committee  I think that's a very valid point and a good point. It's something we would probably interface on with the terminals themselves or the grain companies themselves, rather than going directly to CGC.

Agriculture committee  I'm not aware of any plans at this point. I think we have a North American view. Structurally, we're in three regions—eastern Canada, western Canada, and the United States—and right now that model is working very well. I don't have anything further to comment at this point.

Agriculture committee  Minister Cannon asked both us and CP to come up with some solutions, because we were not part of the industry associations at that time. We embraced that opportunity, we did bring forward some proposals, and there were some very comprehensive discussions. At the end of the day, t

Agriculture committee  We continue to work with the industry on the importance of communication. The sooner they let us know, the sooner we can make decisions and the sooner they can make decisions. I guess what I'm saying is that sometimes they don't know themselves. And things happen. Sometimes whe