Agriculture committee  The key thing is using every output you can. We have tried to present a balanced plan within the industry. When the Great Lakes closes down and Thunder Bay shuts down for grain, you can move more to Montreal and do export, or go through Hamilton, if you want to do that. Generally

Agriculture committee  The market has brought them down. When you're looking at containers coming inland, they're down into almost the historic levels, not those of the last two years. In terms of export, it's not the container supply. The supply is there. It's actually that with COVID, the trade lan

Agriculture committee  No. With respect to this bill, it's not going to have a major impact on CN. We would shut down regardless, whether this bill is passed or not.

Agriculture committee  Absolutely. We should be moving goods by the lowest-cost method to bring them to market. That helps everyone maximize what they're going to make, from the farmers all the way through to whoever is moving that product, and it helps to have the cheapest cost for the people who buy

Agriculture committee  There are two things for innovation. First of all, very briefly, we're going to basically electrify a lot of the cranes, I'll say, and things like that within the terminals. That will help out. What you're really talking about is how we add capacity at the same time. One of the

Agriculture committee  Yes. It seems like a big number, but it's not. When you look at all the ports in Canada, we deliver 30 kilometres of cars a day. Usually they're stacked full with loads going for export, or they're empty containers. They get off-loaded. Then they get reloaded and shipped out the

Agriculture committee  Probably about 70% of the containers we move back into the ports are actually loaded for export going out of Canada. Only about 30% are empty.

Agriculture committee  First of all, to my knowledge, we haven't been consulted. Second, when you look at rail, you see we just don't have enough managers to run the railway, so that doesn't happen. We did have a strike with our signals workers this summer, and we did have enough managers, as well as a

Agriculture committee  That's a great question. Today we think we are fairly staffed up for the upcoming fall peak. We've hired 500 new conductors to help move trains, and conductors become engineers, so it's a progression. We're hiring another 800 in Q4 and Q1, and then we have another 500 coming in

Agriculture committee  We've been mapping those out for years. I'll say right off the bat that B.C. is obviously a hot-button issue these days. It's seen the most volatility. We're very focused on that. We've made a lot of changes in how we operate and what we look for, working with both the B.C. gover

Agriculture committee  Good evening, everyone. I thank the committee for giving CN the opportunity to contribute to its work and provide information about CN’s role in Canada’s food supply chain, as well as on potential next steps that would benefit all participants in freight transportation coming to

International Trade committee  Some of the oil we are transporting moves by pipeline today. The Trans Mountain pipeline, for example, is still under construction to Vancouver. We are moving oil to Washington refineries on the west coast today. Once the Trans Mountain is back up and running at full capacity, th

International Trade committee  There are two different areas, sir. Some of it is transported by pipeline, but the pipeline is at capacity right now, so it's very little. Other oil is well outside of pipeline areas, so it comes in to a rail point, where it gets put into a railcar and is then sold to refineries

International Trade committee  From the ocean standpoint, there are 40s and 20s. It's a function, a multiple. When we look at providing railcars to off-load from the ports, we provide about 30 kilometres' worth of railcars every single day to the ports to bring in containers and also to bring empties or loads

International Trade committee  We're not building surge capacity per se; we're building capacity based on the business that our customers are telling us is coming in. What I'm saying is that if the supply chain or the government wants to build surge capacity, it's most likely going to have to come with some