Agriculture committee  As I mentioned earlier--I concur with what Mr. Mongeau has said--we need to look forward and make sure we provide for the future of the grain-handling transportation system in Canada and not be anchored in the past. We need to make sure we make the right choices today for the suc

Agriculture committee  I'm not sure I understand the point around “best in the world”.

Agriculture committee  I think from an overall grain-handling and transportation aspect, Mr. Mongeau commented earlier about having a very efficient transportation structure in place to provide a very economical package to the farming community to get their goods to the export market vis-à-vis other co

Agriculture committee  I don't have specific documentation on that, but from information I have read and commentary, we have an extremely economical system in place for our farming community, an extremely service-conscious system in place to provide an excellent service to the grain shippers of Canada.

Agriculture committee  Was that to do maintenance?

Agriculture committee  The revenue cap of course is adjusted for volume. There would be no reason why we would not ship volume as a result of the revenue cap. I would have to add, from our perspective, we've been more fluid this year than we've ever been in moving grain. Having made the investments in

Agriculture committee  Yes. The first one was increased line haul and switching costs, which would potentially lead to alternate maintenance facilities other than those where we maintain our cars. The second is more complex maintenance activities and a perpetuation of a non-homogeneous fleet which, a

Agriculture committee  There was a lot of question, from my understanding, as to exactly how and where the cars would be maintained and exactly who would be responsible for the maintenance. There was also the likelihood that having another party would complicate the maintenance activities. That is as o

Agriculture committee  That's a marketplace that we are continuing to get our hands around, quite frankly. I don't think we know the final outcome of how the flows will change as a result of biofuels, but there's no question that the development of biofuels will change the landscape to some degree.

Agriculture committee  From our perspective, Mr. Chair, it is premature for us to even comment on the outcome of the analysis that will be done by Transport Canada and us. We don't agree with the methodology in the past, as I think both of us mentioned, and some of the comparisons that were made. The

Agriculture committee  From our perspective, there's not a whole lot more we can add that would deepen this conversation. We also have issues with the methodology and some of the comparisons made in the preliminary staff report. We are confident there will be a lot of discussion around the numbers as t

Agriculture committee  It depends on the commodity.

Agriculture committee  From our perspective, and it's very similar to what I said in my opening comments, we have made substantial investment in the corridor. We've made very similar investments on locomotives, and we've hired a number of crews. Frankly, we have not used the capacity that we built, so

Agriculture committee  Mr. Anderson, from our perspective we take every single service issue very seriously and address it directly with our customers. We've put in place the capacity, whether it be crews, locomotives, or infrastructure, to meet the service demands of the customers out there, and we ha

Agriculture committee  I honestly don't know the answer to that question. I will tell you that we still serve a number of branch-line locations. We still have a very complex network throughout Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, but I cannot specifically answer the question as to the percentage, one w