Transport committee  Yes, it's a backstop. The fundamental point is that the forest industry believes in commercial relations but we do not experience them on a day-to-day basis with the railways, as the situation is today. We're hopeful that the legislation moves us forward. We're prioritizing thre

Transport committee  If I could intervene, any form of improvement from added competition will be highly applauded by the shipper community. We need more competition. We don't think it's going to correct the problem 100%, but it will move us forward. You asked about the quality of the service we're f

Transport committee  I'll make two points, if I may. The first point is that I'd be very careful on how I defined confidential contracts. What we experience is a strong creep, albeit the latter is perhaps an insufficient word to describe it. Would you consider an email from the railways telling you

Transport committee  I would just add that we have been spending a lot of time on this issue. We look at the impacts on the companies we represent. It's in the tens of millions of dollars in the forest industry. We add up all of the bits that Wade was talking about and it translates into—I'm just tal

Transport committee  Thank you very much. I'm happy to be here. I very much appreciate the committee's efforts to review this bill. As Bob Ballantyne has already stated, we, as shippers, remain united in the need for this legislation. I'm here today representing forest product shippers from coast t