Transport committee  That's a good point. I think it could be a timeframe perhaps, a quantity. We need to have a certain amount of railcar capacity. We mentioned that previously. That was one of the recommendations that came out of this committee as well that we agreed with, that the railroads needed

Transport committee  You may have misinterpreted it. The point I'm trying to make is that it needs to be reported more expeditiously. Right now, it's reported monthly, at the end of every month, but it's a weekly report. I think that in certain delivery points, we need to have the information a lot

Transport committee  I think that provision was in the previous legislation, but as was mentioned, I don't think it was ever enacted, because of the fact that if there's a dispute about what the penalty should be, the smaller shippers are not able to undertake such an endeavour. I really believe that

Transport committee  I think it will be more palatable to the shippers, especially the smaller ones, so we believe it's a step in the right direction.

Transport committee  Are you talking in particular about railroads purchasing the hopper cars?

Transport committee  Well, we believe that the MRE, the entitlement right now, compensates railroads fairly, not only for the costs but also a profit margin and for them to actually be able to service the railcars. I believe that the purchase of the railcars in legislation is actually outside of the

Transport committee  On the interswitching, we would prefer that the interswitching provisions in place in the prior legislation be continued. On the reciprocal penalties, we think there has to be a better definition in the legislation of what the penalties actually are. We know that there are pena

Transport committee  We do have some soybean farmers. It's a crop that's being grown more regularly now.

Transport committee  I mentioned this previously in response to a question by Ms. Block, from Saskatchewan, but not specifically about soybeans. I mentioned the crop logistics working group. That's a committee that has been created by the federal government. That is a request that will be coming from

Transport committee  Actually, I don't have the answer to that. I'm sorry.

Transport committee  I think that is a difficult question to answer within the industry. Obviously there are some delivery points, especially on branch lines, that require not an extra service but a different kind of service because of the fact that they're not on a high-volume line. The other one is

Transport committee  I think there should be a continuation of what's being done now. There is fairly good reporting, but I think it needs to be done a lot faster than it is. Rather than a month's end kind of review, I think it has to be done almost day by day.

Transport committee  Yes, they are problematic. One of the things that I mentioned was the interswitching that was in place in the previous legislation. That is creating some angst amongst the industry, particularly the grain elevator industry, because of the fact that they don't know what will happe

Transport committee  We're particularly disappointed by the lack of a mention of reciprocal penalties. This has been an outstanding or ongoing issue for several years. If you recall the record crop we had in 2013-14, a lot of our submission statements are based on what happened that year. We certainl

Transport committee  Yes. Thank you. Good evening. Thank you for the opportunity to address the committee tonight. I am pleased to be here today. My name is Ray Orb, and I'm the president of the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities, or SARM. SARM represents all 296 rural municipalities