Agriculture committee  I think it's a little too early to put a dollar amount on it. Fortunately, this time around we are a little later in the season. In 2013-14 we saw that basis widen, whereas right now we're just starting to see it widen. It's a little too early to put a number on it, but the fac

Agriculture committee  No. The straight answer is no. Their plans were nothing. A lot of CN stuff was already announced, to be quite frank. Then I felt CP brushed farmers by the wayside with their letter to the minister, unfortunately.

Agriculture committee  I guess time will tell. I don't think it's quite strong enough. That doesn't mean we can't get it passed and get some clout for the shippers, right? Maybe next time around we'll have to circle the wagons and look at the MRE or whatnot. What is important today is to get this bill

Agriculture committee  I echo a lot of that. We've just got to concentrate on getting this bill passed as quickly as we can. Everyone is asking for amendments. They're no-brainers, so let's get them in there and get this done.

Agriculture committee  They definitely missed the ball on forecasting this time, but there's no incentive for them to spend money on capacity like that when we can't hit their bottom line. That's what some of Bill C-49 will do. We'll be able to hit them where it hurts, and maybe they will spend more mo

Agriculture committee  I echo those statements. I call it non-partisan, but there are always some politics at play. Maybe the boat was missed on a couple of things early on. It shouldn't have been an omnibus bill. We know that, but let's learn from those mistakes right now. It's a win-win for everyone.

Agriculture committee  Right. It definitely does strengthen the bill tremendously. If the amendments were to hold up the bill for some amount of time or an indefinite amount of time, I could do without them, but it shouldn't be that big of an issue to pass those few amendments we're asking for, and t

Agriculture committee  You know, if we're talking about something like an order in council, I think we're too late for that. Unfortunately, we've probably missed the boat. When this topic was really brought to light, say three weeks ago, there would have been the opportunity, but in that respect we're

Agriculture committee  Thanks for that story, Warren. I've heard from farmer after farmer after farmer that we can't get our grain to the ports and we can't get paid. That's kind of the big thing. Mr. Chair and members of the committee, on behalf of the Western Canadian Wheat Growers, thank you for h