Transport committee  No, but on our side, we will support it going as fast as it can be delivered. We will not be the bottleneck.

Transport committee  Our concern would echo that of the previous panel. By adding an additional uncertainty and complexity into the review process, we are concerned that it is going to discourage the attraction of capital to infrastructure projects that will enhance the supply chain.

Transport committee  To jump on a question I didn't answer from Mr. Badawey, the Lower Mainland is definitely the most challenging point on our entire network. When we look at that, the commuter operation in the Lower Mainland is one in which I suggest we have to think about a long-term solution. In

Transport committee  It would be a very challenging and expensive project to build an additional track along the inlet. I think environmentally it would be challenging as well. There are also other options to reconnect and redesign the commuter network so you can leverage existing commuter infrastruc

Transport committee  No, the final engineering has not been done. The initial submission, I think, conceptualized it as an overpass, but the decisions need to be finalized.

Transport committee  We were certainly in discussions with the province and the city, and under the Canada Transportation Act and the Canadian Transportation Agency's precedent, there is a component of railway funding. In this case, given the existence of the railway for a long time in that location,

Transport committee  I don't think so, but it's less than $5 million. It's relatively modest compared with the total cost.

Transport committee  Yes. We supported that business case when it went in as well.

Transport committee  We're not the lead partner, so I'm not intimately familiar with the exact status. Our engineers continue to liaise with the lead partner, but I can't comment on exactly where we are.

Transport committee  I believe it's the city.

Transport committee  We've participated in the collaboration group in Vancouver. There's also the Greater Vancouver Gateway Council. We work with all of the Lower Mainland stakeholders. The submissions that were put forward by the port were reflective of all the input of all the stakeholders in the p

Transport committee  I'll jump in first. In terms of tripling between now and 2045, I haven't done the math on it. It seems a little aggressive. Long term, if you look at rail demand, it's something in the range of the GDP. There are clearly variances in crop production or the opening of a new mine,

Transport committee  When we look at the long hours, I think we have to get to the facts. Over the investigations we've done, the average locomotive engineer conductor works just under 40 hours a week, which is consistent with what other industries and people tend to work in a normal workweek. I thin

Transport committee  I would describe it as a regional challenge in terms of the economic growth. There are locations on our network where it is much more challenging to recruit and train locomotive engineers.

Transport committee  I talked about that corridor and the West Coast Express. There is about 25% capacity on our main operational line between Coquitlam and downtown that is consumed with commuters. We would say that, if we could come up with a long-term strategy to disentangle commuter and freight,