Transport committee  A number of these contracts come up in any given year. It's only occasionally that they get to the point of an actual labour action. We've seen back-to-work legislation several times in the last 50 years or 60 years, most recently in 2012. It's certainly, again, getting to that p

Transport committee  I believe that question is directed towards me. I really think that this is not my area of expertise, so—

Transport committee  That's right. I would say that for those of us in the industry who watch and monitor this and analyze it, there's no one specific thing that can be pointed to. The now four weeks of kind of suboptimal performance is leaving analysts scratching our heads as to why, but certainly,

Transport committee  I think you've hit the major ones there, Dave.

Transport committee  I can make a quick comment. Certainly in our sector, the western Canadian grain sector, we've seen billions of dollars in investment from grain exporting and handling companies in-country with the redevelopment and the new building of the best technology for grain collection. We

Transport committee  On the labour side, under the Canada Labour Code, there are mechanisms in place now. Perhaps a role.... We could perhaps migrate towards having longer contracts between the various labour unions and the employers, because we seem to be on a two-year or three-year cycle, which put

Transport committee  Very briefly, within the railways, they have their multiple unions that have their agreements with the employers. There is a whole schedule of those. Interested parties such as us or you can see them, so you know when these are coming up. It's just that, again, with all the leg

Transport committee  Just quickly, certainly in the farming community, we take it year by year. Last year was last year, and hopefully all people in the supply chain and all parties have learned from that. We're looking forward to the melting here and putting a new crop in the ground. Hopefully, we'l

Transport committee  Certainly in the grains sector, we look to the west coast as being that dominant outflow to the world, and Vancouver specifically. Pretty much all of the real estate there is now accounted for and spoken for. What we see from the shippers of our product is optimizing the existing

Transport committee  Thank you. I'll address this specific question: What is the state of Canada's supply chain? In crop year 2021, the railway set a new benchmark in the movement of western Canadian grain, shipping over 61 million tonnes. All stakeholders benefited from the strong supply chain per

Agriculture committee  One of the 2015 recommendations was to establish, under the leadership of the ministers of transport and international trade, a long-term advisory panel that advises on a variety of issues. One could imagine that a transportation commissioner, as was discussed at the previous pan

Agriculture committee  We currently operate what we typically refer to as a bulk system. Literally, the railcars are loaded and many different trains meet the same ship and fill it. When it comes to the bulk system, on the immediate or the long-term horizon, there is no other way to do this for the bul

Agriculture committee  I think one thing from the shipper's perspective is that we need to see more accountability in the railway-shipper relationship. There have been attempts to tackle this in multiple legislative occurrences over the last few years, but certainly—to one of the earlier questions—ship

Agriculture committee  Sure, I can just jump in for 10 seconds. Certainly, there are many in the ag industry who support what was discussed about the oligopoly and the ability for the federal government to look at the Competition Act to address that and free up capacity and service.

Agriculture committee  Very briefly, that has been a quest from grain shippers and other sector shippers for decades. We've inched towards it through various pieces of legislation and bills over time. Not being a lawyer, I think there's a threshold that's never been crossed in the verbiage within the a