Mr. Marit, could I go to some of your last comments about sharing liability?
We had the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers testifying here some two weeks ago before we broke for our riding weeks. I'm not going to put words in their mouths but it looked and appeared and sounded to me as if they were extremely reluctant to have their member companies share in the third party liability responsibility.
I don't know if you have any experience or insight in this regard, but wouldn't it seem to average Canadians to make sense that if the importing or transporting owner of the dangerous materials, an oil company for example, were to be forced to have third party liability insurance, wouldn't that company necessarily have to make pretty darn sure that the safety management system in place with that railway, the due diligence they would have to perform, would be pretty onerous given the risks for them?
I say that in the context of the Auditor General's rail safety report, which I don't know if you four gentlemen have read. If you haven't, you really should because the Auditor General has concluded without any kind of prevarication that he cannot say to Canadians whether safety management systems are in place.
Mr. Marit, could you give us some of your insight or thoughts in this regard?