Transport committee  Sorry, can we do the two questions one more time?

Transport committee  Our infrastructure challenges are really because we took over rail lines that were falling apart. We're only 15 years old or younger. When CN and CP were deciding to devolve some of their branch lines—of course, if you had a used car and you knew you were going to be junking it,

Transport committee  Yes, with the municipalities, not so much. With the building Canada fund, a lot of funds are technically available to short-line rail, but we need municipal support. It's essentially impossible, because it's always going to be putting the private railway ahead of the community's

Transport committee  Yes.

Transport committee  Yes, definitely. We do that now. If they have an overcapacity of one kind of car, they'll store them on our lines for a fee. Yes, we do that, and that's a part of—

Transport committee  I'm not sure I'm following. I'm sorry: one more time?

Transport committee  Oh, absolutely. Yes.

Transport committee  If they were our own cars, if we owned our cars...?

Transport committee  Right. Yes.

Transport committee  Exactly. I'm not sure how it works for CP and CN in the class 1s, but for us, definitely, funding has always been an issue because the banks just don't know what to do with us. This program, the NTCF, was really designed for bottlenecks and whole-of-network improvements. For some

Transport committee  Several of our projects that went ahead will improve fluidity. To get very specific, in some situations, if we aren't fluid on our network then we have to sit our trains on their main lines, which means they are interrupted, which can have a huge impact. So I would say yes, defin

Transport committee  Anything that impacts economic growth will definitely have an impact on us.

Transport committee  Based on what I've heard, yes. But I am unsure.

Transport committee  Good afternoon, Madam Chair, and committee. Thanks for having me here today and for being willing to listen to the Western Canadian Short Line Railway Association's experience with the national trade corridors fund. We really appreciate it. As you are aware, our association is