Transport committee  There are other things. We've limited our remarks to service and performance metrics. There's a great deal more financial information available in the U.S. than in Canada. We have information on those types of things.

Transport committee  That was very good.

Transport committee  I didn't bring my railway atlas with me; I should have. There are some rail lines in northern Quebec where, in order to come off that line and really go anywhere, the traffic has to move through a corridor that's excluded under the long-haul interswitching provisions. CN lines th

Transport committee  To deal with a specific issue of interchanges in those corridors, you could simply delete the reference to interchanges in the description of those corridors.

Transport committee  There are always many factors playing into things. There are certainly examples in the past of a shipper who went on a number of occasions to complain to the agency about the service it was getting and whether it was getting a sufficient number of cars to move, I believe it was,

Transport committee  For obvious reasons, I can't mention any names. Let me think how I'll put this. It would not be out of the realm of the possible for a railway with market power to say to a shipper, “You can either have a five-year contract with increases of 15%, 15%, 5%, 9%, or something in tha

Transport committee  Yes, it has happened.

Transport committee  I am sorry, but I cannot disclose those.

Transport committee  It's not.

Transport committee  I can address that. In 1996, when the CTA first came in, there was a provision requiring a mandatory review of the act within a certain amount of time. I can't recall exactly what that time frame was, but subsequent to that, whenever major amendments to the act were made, that w

Transport committee  It's not there.

Transport committee  The latest review that Mr. Emerson conducted was one of those reviews. He's recommending something more ongoing and evergreening, but at a minimum we think there should be a requirement or commitment for this act to be reviewed again, to see how it's actually working, if at all.

Transport committee  Final-offer arbitration typically is a forward-looking thing. It doesn't really directly deal with a past service problem. Most often final-offer arbitration is focused very much on rates. You can include other conditions, but the more conditions you layer in, the more complicate

Transport committee  I don't know any shipper whose first instinct is to start a complaint process or use a regulatory process. These are business people, and their preference is always to try to negotiate something. Part of the usefulness of these remedies is that they provide, as David mentioned

Transport committee  Exactly.