Transport committee  I have a couple of comments. One is a clarification comment. The Kinder Morgan member that's on our list here is actually Vancouver Wharves. It's not the facility in Burnaby.

Transport committee  That's right. It's Kinder Morgan, but it's Vancouver Wharves. The Burnaby facility is not a member of our association—

Transport committee  —so it's probably not appropriate for me to comment on that particular item. With respect to the coal being shipped out of B.C., a lot of coal being shipped—there are different types of coal, obviously—is metallurgical coal, the coal used in the production of steel. Given the ma

Transport committee  Yes.

Transport committee  When companies are looking to invest, they can invest in various places within the world. Even if you take the grain example, the companies that were in partnership with our world players in the agricultural world can invest in Australia, in Brazil, in Ukraine, or somewhere in th

Transport committee  That is another very big subject that also gets into labour and the unionization world. In our environment on the waterfront, we negotiate collective agreements with the longshore workforce, the ILWU. That environment means that we negotiate and agree on work practices on a whole

Transport committee  Again, that is another interesting question. In the collective bargaining process, you have two parties that are working at it, and the two parties need to come to agreement to effectively deal with either labour practice changes or wages and benefits. Typically what's happen

Transport committee  That's a fairly large subject, so I'll probably keep my comments somewhat brief and to specific areas. On the rail side, there are some rail efficiencies that need to be driven into the system with respect to the movement of cargo. A lot of that has to do right now with crewing

Transport committee  On the ship side, they're typically either waiting for cargo to arrive at the port or waiting to unload cargo at the port, one or the other. Either the cargo hasn't arrived yet at the terminals for them to come in and berth to load the cargo; or on some of the unloading, there mi

Transport committee  I know the federal government is currently reviewing the permitting processes. Currently the port of Vancouver is the permitting agent for developments at our facilities and on federal land. They've gone through an extensive process to update their whole environmental review and

Transport committee  I wouldn't say that we've done a risk profile on the separate projects. No, we haven't done that. I can speak from experience, as our company is a joint venture partner in the G3 project. I can speak from personal experience there. If there had been a significant delay on that

Transport committee  Yes, we were. We also did a submission respecting the pending changes, both our association and our company.

Transport committee  I haven't had a conversation with a specific minister, no.

Transport committee  Sorry. I have talked to trade.

Transport committee  Sure. I just have two more sentences and then I'm done. Is that okay?