Transport committee  I think the seaway is a very important element. We should be looking at it. Definitely with respect to moving short sea shipping, it's still very cost effective. I think that we should look at both. The high-velocity corridor takes a lot of money, a lot of time. I think there are

Transport committee  When we look at Australia and other places, let's not forget that we have a harsh climate and big geography. I think we are doing very well as a country.

Transport committee  The level of reaction we are talking about is that today, an actual complaint has to trigger the investigation. I think that once you start to get interactions and you have the ability to investigate ex parte, you could identify systemic issues and tackle them before they become

Transport committee  The only thing I can say is that without a much bigger study on that, I can't give you an exact number. If we look at grain rates today, per revenue mile they are lagging behind other commodities. I think the figure is somewhere in the range of 12% to 17% lagging behind other rat

Transport committee  Mr. Emerson, perhaps I could add a point. Our trade lanes are also changing in Canada. When we look at the Asia-Pacific gateway, we had and continue to have a lot of focus on China. Also, with the growth in our agricultural exports to India, we have a number of our products goi

Transport committee  That's very similar to the Surface Transportation Board in the United States.

Transport committee  I'll maybe start with the key thing on modernization. As you know, many of your colleagues have been talking about the need for study and the need for informed action. We felt that through the deliberations, with the importance of the MRE to producers and to the agricultural indu

Transport committee  Okay. First of all, the agency itself doesn't have the power to obligate information to be collected. Today, they can request it. They cannot go to railways, industry, or anyone to obligate them to provide data. That's one of the powers of the agency we think was very important

Transport committee  David, do you want to start or do you want me to take a shot at that?

Transport committee  Okay. In general, I think ultimately when you have market-based mechanisms allowing supply and demand to dictate the price, there will be a cost and there will be a return on invested capital calculated in. When we have regulated rates entirely, we have to ensure that those regu

Transport committee  Certainly the desire of producers is to move the crop at harvest time, September, October, November, December, and January. This is the traditional shipping period for the Canadian crop. All that being said, I think for the grain industry we have to do a better job, and I'm a par

Transport committee  Yes.

Transport committee  I want to make one quick point. The cost of relaying those tracks is very, very prohibitive. As Mr. Emerson said, the infrastructure replacement 10 years down the road, if you make a mistake, is so prohibitive it will never get redone, so you do have to be very careful. Municip

Transport committee  We recommended clearly that with service level agreements a shipper should have the right within the definition of “operational terms” that reciprocity shall govern operational terms. For absolute clarity, reciprocity would include reciprocal financial consequences as a right of

Transport committee  I was also responsible to Mr. Emerson for potash and a number of other commodities. Other commodities force your products.... Potash, the rest of them...they're dealing in a market-based system. In a way, they feel they're subsidizing the grain shipping. From that perspective, th