What I'm saying is that in the transportation of dangerous goods in general, 99.997% of the time the good makes it from its point of origin to its point of destination. As the increase in the shipments occur, then you will see more individual accidents and incidents. But what we have to do as regulators is to continue the work with respect to educating the rail companies in terms of SMS, the importance of a safety culture, which, as I have already pointed out, they have embraced in the last ten years. They have seen significant improvements in their own operations.
With respect to how that translates into the size of a budget, well, I'll let the department inform me as to what tools they need in order to carry out the level of enforcement and inspections. But as we move along, as I said in my opening comments, we are doing things in smarter regulations as well too, putting into the hands of the inspectors the ability to issue fines on the spot and ensuring that in inspections there is good coordination between the railways and Transport Canada. You know, 30,000 inspections were done in this country last year by Transport Canada officials. Both CN and CP have inspections that are ongoing all the time as well.
What I can say to you is that we will continue to take very seriously the issue of rail safety. We'll continue to put our resources into it. We'll continue to look for ways to do things more safely for Canadians.
Those goods still need to move; you know that. The goods need to move in the country no matter what kind they are. They are dangerous goods, but they still need to move for the benefits that are attributed to whatever those goods may be.