Transport committee  Alberta Wheat is a member of the crop logistics working group. We had some recommendations that we had made to improve the bill. I think if we had those, it would work very well. There are some good provisions in this bill, as I said before, and with a few little tweaks like that

Transport committee  Yes.

Transport committee  It helps the people we sell to. We've heard their testimony. The grain elevators buy our grain and they ship to our exporting customers. So, if it's important to them, it's important to us.

Transport committee  For example, in 2013, when the level of service was basically deplorable, we had a very large crop that year. Farmers had contracts for a harvest delivery, and because of the rail backup, some of these contracts weren't realized or weren't deliverable until months later. It was s

Transport committee  We're not growing less than we did then. The trend in agricultural production has been up. We've been producing more and more efficiently. If you look at the real price of grain, we're selling grain right now this year for about the same price we did in 1981. The only way we can

Transport committee  We also have access to airplanes, but that would be a very ineffective way of shipping. Rail is still by far the cheapest way to move a bulk commodity. Speaking for grains, it's not an option to truck grain to the coast. It would be far more expensive. In a monopolistic environme

Transport committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. My name is Kevin Auch, and I am pleased to appear before this committee this afternoon alongside our industry partners from the Western Canadian Shippers' Coalition and the Western Canadian Short Line Railway Association to provide a producer perspective