Finance committee  From 2014 to 2017, less than 1% of traffic in the Prairies actually used extended interswitching. At the time—and we're going to collect more data under this pilot—I don't think we had evidence of that. This time we will be getting information from the railways and from shippers

Finance committee  Absolutely. I think we will also be looking at the impacts on employment of the shippers and whether they were able to ship more of what forestry or agriculture was able to grow.

Finance committee  Well, maybe they will get better contracts so that grain can be shipped differently, or better access, which helps. This is a measure that shippers say is very important for their businesses to grow. It's not limited to just grain. It is all commodities. Last time, there were d

Finance committee  Yes.

Finance committee  I'm Tamara Rudge. I'm the director general for surface transportation policy at Transport Canada. Currently, regulated interswitching is at 30 kilometres. That provides shippers with a radius from the interchange point with guaranteed access to another carrier at a rate regulate

Finance committee  The Emerson report was completed at the end of 2015. The previous measure had not been in place that long, so when the Emerson task force made their recommendations, they didn't have the full information. In fact, for that previous measure, there was an uptake over the three year