Agriculture committee  We have, over many years. To Joan's point, this is something relatively new. What happens is that the elevator, itself, which has compartments that grain gets unloaded and separated into, becomes full. It gets full if you can't put it in the ship. That's where we come in: whe

Agriculture committee  I think it's improved, though. Again, we're railroaders.

Agriculture committee  We're part of the supply chain. It's not that people haven't worked on it, haven't worked together about it and improved it. It's just that, recently, something has happened to stop it again.

Agriculture committee  For us, capital spending starts with the hardening of the track, and that's an every-year endeavour, so it's basic capital. It's new rail, new ties, new ballast and making sure that the bridges and structures are all sound and safe. Every year, we spend well over a billion and a

Agriculture committee  These are commercial contracts that we sign with our customers, where they provide the fleet. This is an addition to the actual grain fleet that we have.

Agriculture committee  Let me start by saying that the Prince Rupert grain terminal is separate from Ridley. Ridley is the coal and coke terminal. I don't know how to answer your question. Every participant in the supply chain needs to have resiliency. As we've spoken about, whether it's more track, m

Agriculture committee  We see the growth opportunities. We'll always be aligned with whatever there is to grow and provide a better service.

Agriculture committee  Do you want me to start, Joan?

Agriculture committee  I can't put a number on how many trains or what kind of commodity has been delayed as a result. However, it is an extremely important part of our safety focus. We have undertaken various pilots with our operating unions, not just pilot projects but scheduling schemes in various m

Agriculture committee  Whether it's LPG or other chemicals, we work extremely closely with our customers to get the proper forecast, because that goes back into building the right infrastructure and hiring the right number of people. Nothing comes on as a surprise necessarily. We work very hard, thou

Agriculture committee  Our goal is to maximize every asset we have to get more grain to the port, both companies and with our producer shipping companies.

Agriculture committee  It's the same with us. We also have air compressor cars. We increased our fleet. These are boxcars with air compressors that, again, can be used either at the end, to Joan's point, or mid-train. We increased our fleet this year by 33%, as well as purchasing new distributed power

Agriculture committee  No, I think it's the capacity of the entire supply chain. It's how quick the crane cars can be unloaded at the port terminals. It's the distance once you take away the short cycle going to Thunder Bay, where you now have to move those cars to eastern Canada or to places in the U.

Agriculture committee  All parts of the supply chain have to add and create capacity. We feel that we're doing our part in terms of the rail infrastructure, the people and the locomotives. It's not a matter of a shortage. It's what the entire supply chain actually can handle.

Agriculture committee  I think it's a little early. We railways don't dictate necessarily where cars go. We take an order from a shipper and we move it to where they direct us to move it to.