Agriculture committee  I want to reiterate that these are two separate activities. The consultation and the move forward through to the fall with respect to the review is a different thing than the government's ability to extend the elements of C-30. The minister has certainly heard from the agricult

Agriculture committee  That would be our department.

Agriculture committee  I know the fleet is generally reaching the end of its lifespan, as was forecast. We are engaged in looking at elements with respect to whether we can extend that lifespan. It is actually a program shop in the department that runs that. If you are interested in getting further i

Agriculture committee  Actually, I did.

Agriculture committee  You're picking up on my last comment with respect to getting to our 2.0 in terms of looking at where we go in our next rendition of the gateways and corridors program. I think that's exactly where we need to go, and that's why I think the data component is going to be critical in

Agriculture committee  As we've indicated, Bill C-30 was put into place to deal with a very specific situation. That situation has now passed. We've returned to more normal operating parameters. Again, I think the act and the advice we got from Mr. Emerson and his panel allow the government to move fo

Agriculture committee  One of things that I think we've learned is the importance of understanding the entirety of the system and the interconnectivity of that system. In the last 8 or 10 years, Canada has made real progress with our gateways and corridors program, because it was actually an articula

Agriculture committee  Yes.

Agriculture committee  I wasn't here at the time. I'm not sure whether or why there was a decision to include or not to include that.

Agriculture committee  If I could just say very quickly, one of the activities we are pursuing in the commodity supply chain table is bringing the parties together and encouraging dialogue. It's the convening power of the federal government to bring parties together so we can create some of these conve

Agriculture committee  I can confirm absolutely that we've heard from many different parties about the importance of interswitching to them. We've heard varying references about how far we should extend the interswitching rules. Clearly that is going to be an issue. I think one of the things we want t

Agriculture committee  I think that is part of why we want to make sure we properly engage so we do get information, so that it's more than just anecdotal information. I think we want to learn from people specifically how they are using it so that it better informs the decision-making moving forward.

Agriculture committee  I think one of the key elements in the report overall is its fairly good focus on the need for proper data. I've been in my job for a year, and I think that is an area where we are trying to focus in the department to improve our capacity to understand what's going on in the syst

Agriculture committee  Do you want to handle that?

Agriculture committee  I think that specific results concerning the kinds of investments government would be making in the rail sector are something we want to proceed with in the CTA review to understand and identify priorities. I think we're still some distance away from the government's actually mak