Thanks, Mr. Chair.
Gentlemen, very quickly, I want to give you the number one conclusion of the Auditor General's report.
The Auditor General is saying that Canadians basically cannot trust—cannot trust—whether or not the railways in this country have a safety management system. That's what he's saying. It's written twice in the report. He cannot tell Canadians whether or not your SMS is actually in place. That's the conclusion. There are a whole series of other conclusions that he draws, but I want to put to you a proposition and ask you for your response, very quickly.
We're going to double the exploitation of the oil sands in the next 10 years. We're going to see a million barrels of excess capacity of oil that cannot go on pipeline by 2024. You have plans to build large-scale crude loading terminals in the west for capacity of 890,000 barrels a day. We know from the Auditor General, because we can't necessarily trust the government. The question I want to put to you is—and Mr. Creel, you'll recall these words originally as a U.S. citizen—Canadians would say, “We'll trust, but we want it verified.”
Please tell the Canadian people who are watching what you're going to do to help Canadians have trust in the system, and particularly, what pressure you are going to exert on the sitting government to do its job and regulate.