Agriculture committee  Yes. Just by way of example, I was trying to describe some of the recent investments that have been made in the system. What I was referring to was an investment in what is the Lynnterm terminal, where they're proposing to establish a grain terminal that will have a rail loop

Agriculture committee  It is a private company.

Agriculture committee  It's not all done. There are still approvals under way, I believe.

Agriculture committee  That's my interpretation of the recommendation: that there is concern that producer car shippers are not able to access the provisions of the act as shippers, and that this needs to be clarified. Yes.

Agriculture committee  I guess I would say—and it's specific language in this recommendation—that from our perspective, producer car shippers and shippers would typically be treated the same under the Transportation Act, but it is a legal question. It's to ensure that producer car shippers are defined

Agriculture committee  The minimum grain volumes were put in place to expedite the transportation of grain to the ports. There was a record crop, 30% higher than average, and a particularly cold winter that year, which resulted in trains having to run at reduced speeds and with shorter consists, so vol

Agriculture committee  No. I mean all commodities—

Agriculture committee  —in the three prairie provinces.

Agriculture committee  Yes, everything.

Agriculture committee  I think so.

Agriculture committee  I think it would be fair to say that there are still provisions they're looking for. But with respect to what the volume requirements were designed to do, which was move a bumper crop, I think that was accomplished. Within the normal parameters that we track, the system returne

Agriculture committee  I think the system grows and changes. It is a commercial system, and the various parties make investments in the system in order to improve. Railways make investments to improve their business, and shippers make improvements. Shawn did mention a couple of those things, just as

Agriculture committee  I was here at the time. There are transportation information regulations, and there were enhancements made to those at the time the bill went through. There has never been any requirements for reporting on interswitching. These relationships between railways are seen as commerci

Agriculture committee  I guess the short answer to that is no. The volume requirements haven't been used since March 2015, when the system returned to normal operation, so they're not in play. The compensation provisions would disappear, but they have been used very infrequently. In terms of interswitc

Agriculture committee  They included minimum grain volumes requirements and defining operational terms in service level agreements.