Finance committee  I'll just go quickly and then let Perry go. I met with our Minister of Highways and Infrastructure in Saskatchewan recently. I would love to say that they're interested, but I don't think they particularly are. It is their highways. It's our provincial taxpayer dollars that are

Finance committee  The association is not funded by municipalities. Some of the municipalities own portions of short-lines.

Finance committee  We have a variety of different ownership models, but there are some short-lines in which the municipality has maybe a 25% stake. That was to help the short-line to start, because when the farmers were first starting out, sometimes they didn't have enough money to get going.

Finance committee  It's $90 million, for the first portion.

Finance committee  Thank you. My name is Allison Field, and I'm the director of government relations and communications for the Western Canadian Short Line Railway Association. Thanks so much for having us. We really appreciate being here. Western Canada has 86% of the total field crop acreage i