Transport committee  I'd say the similarities are that they both have issues. In competitive line rates, as they exist today, essentially the railways don't compete against one another. That's why it's been an ineffective remedy, and it's been little used over the last 20 or 25 years. Long-haul int

Transport committee  I think—

Transport committee  Okay. To echo what Pierre said, we're talking about meeting very specific delivery windows for our customers for our exports. At times, we can wait weeks, if not months, to satisfy our orders. We provide forecasts. We have vessels coming. We have orders. When we don't meet them

Transport committee  Our ask specifically is that, in a final offer arbitration process, when a shipper makes a request for a costing determination from the agency, that costing determination be provided to the arbitrator within, let's say, five days of the request. It will not rely on co-operation f

Transport committee  The question you're asking refers to the final offer arbitration process—

Transport committee  —which in itself is an expensive and difficult process for a shipper to undertake. Nevertheless, specifically answering your question, I have knowledge of.... They're confidential processes so I'll talk only about ones I've been involved in. I can't talk about when or the content

Transport committee  No, that's not correct. We can launch a final offer arbitration under certain circumstances. That's the choice of the shipper. What we're talking about is seeking an expert costing determination from the agency to inform the arbitration and the arbitrator as to whether the positi

Transport committee  A final offer arbitration process would cost a shipper like Teck in the millions of dollars to undertake. It's expensive and it's time-consuming, but it is the one remedy that we have and it's one that we want to ensure that the legitimacy of is maintained.

Transport committee  No.

Transport committee  The process itself is such that not just the content is confidential but the actual fact that it's taking place is confidential, so it's not transported from one shipper to another. Of course, we're informed by it for future arbitrations that we undertake, but no, it doesn't go f

Transport committee  “Adequate and suitable” is currently defined in the act, and in our original submission—and I speak on behalf of Teck in this answer—we asked for one small change to the language, that “adequate and suitable” be based on the requirements of the shipper as opposed to the means of

Transport committee  That's right, and that's adequate and suitable. In the case of Teck, we give forecasts to the railway going out four years and very specifically over five months. Then for ourselves or for a forestry company or a shipping company—I'm going to use a technical term—we schedule a la

Transport committee  No, they're not. The main reason for that is that what's supplied in the United States under the waybill system is a sample. It's not a complete reporting on the actual material movements. As I said, in 2017 with data capabilities and transmission, there's no need for any restric

Transport committee  I think at the very end you referred to two different points. One is real-time data and the other is a reporting on what took place. Was that on purpose, or...?

Transport committee  That's a great question. Let's start with time, time for, in our case, a train to go from an origin to a destination and to return. We measure that in hours. The quantity is moot. There is time over a particular subdivision. When we talk about granularity, to us that means no