Transport committee  I have nothing to add.

Transport committee  Not in Niagara—

Transport committee  Obviously, we believe strongly that the public-private partnership model that the Canadian federal government has followed for development of trade corridors has been of benefit to the communities. It's been of benefit to the carriers. It's been of benefit to increasing trade.

Transport committee  If you like, I can start. We would say that, again, the more collaboration the better. The more there are formal practices, and they've been ad hoc and informal, and more formal over time here, at least from a railroad and our position, we think that's an advantage. It brings st

Transport committee  I was thinking about that very well-posed question. Given our experience in Canada and our experience in the United States, do we see any part of the United States that would have regulatory lessons for Canada? I was thinking to myself, can I even think of one? There are some t

Transport committee  We certainly recognize that the communities of White Rock and Surrey have had concerns about that rail line, and community concerns about our volumes that have gone through there, and we have been working with them for many years to try to mitigate some of those issues, some of w

Transport committee  Yes. We were originally the Great Northern, then the Burlington Northern and now BNSF.

Transport committee  That's kilometres in British Columbia since 1909.

Transport committee  We go from the port to Blaine.

Transport committee  Canadian ports have a number of cost advantages over some of the United States ports. They start with the cost of labour, the ability to be more efficient in terms of using technology, and the harbour maintenance fee—tax does not apply to containers and goods coming into Canada.

Transport committee  I will do my best, Madam Chair, to do it in five minutes. Thank you, Madam Chair and members of the committee, for letting me testify here today on behalf of the BNSF Railway Company. We are the largest private freight railroad in the world. We are headquartered in Fort Worth,