Natural Resources committee  With respect to the trucking industry, I don't think there's anything. There is enough competition in the trucking industry these days. Our mills are able to work with their trucking company providers to get the product from the mill to the market in a timely fashion. In the mar

Natural Resources committee  Unfortunately, no, we don't. What I do know is that the companies out west that are using trucks are basically doing so because they cannot get effective rail service. So they're trucking to another railhead, putting lumber on a truck and shipping it to another railway, because

Natural Resources committee  I was just going to say that the federal government has committed fairly significant sums of money to the Asia-Pacific gateway to improve the transportation system through to the port of Vancouver, which is obviously a benefit for us, because so much of our tonnage now--both soli

Natural Resources committee  There is, but the vast majority of the mills are not on tidewater. There are a number of mills right on the water, and that tonnage would obviously go directly to the ship. Mills in Trois-Rivières, Shawinigan, and so on that are shipping offshore are going to ship it by rail or t

Natural Resources committee  Virtually all of the pulp is shipped by rail. Some of the newsprint is shipped by truck to the United States, to the publishers in the eastern United States. That would go by truck. A large portion of it, though, is shipped by rail to warehouses in Chicago or Philadelphia or St.

Natural Resources committee  In overall terms of the percentages that the industry uses for each of the modes, it's probably 70% by rail and 30% by truck. Most of the product that we ship goes to the United States. For the most part, to get the tonnage to export or to offshore destinations, it has to go eith