International Trade committee  The railways have very little opportunity to change a long-term pricing model. What we have the ability to do is change anything that happens outside the norm—extra storage and things like that. This is why the storage fees went up: to encourage customers to remove containers fro

International Trade committee  Thank you. I always think it's best to let the market take its course. With that, there has to be oversight on how that impacts the overall economy. I'll speak for what I do know, which is that overall on the west coast of the U.S., what they put in place had no impact whatsoev

International Trade committee  I believe you should continue to let the market dictate pricing.

International Trade committee  None of it was labour-related. It was all space-related. We had full staffing at the terminals. It's just a matter of being able to process all those containers through that terminal at that time and having customers come and pick them up. We thought there was a shortage in truc

International Trade committee  It's whoever is coming to pick up the container. We don't even have the information. When that container comes in from one of the big steamship lines, it gets dropped in our terminal, and that's where our information stops. They contact the end receiver, who would be your constit

International Trade committee  I cannot, because it would be more on the retail side. I don't think anyone's calculated it, to my knowledge.

International Trade committee  That's a great question. You're accurate on all your numbers. Would Milton help? The answer is yes, absolutely. We have tried to get Milton up and running for the last seven years. It's finally under construction after basically eight years of going through the process of gettin

International Trade committee  Thank you. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for allowing the Canadian National Railway Company, CN, to contribute to the committee and provide information on what has impacted the 2022 supply chains in Canada, as well as some potential next steps that would benefit all partic