Thank you, Chair.
I have a question for you, Mr. Vaughan. We've heard from the coast guard and Transport Canada that they work in partnerships to develop these oil spill response plans. This is 20 years after the government promised to have a government plan to deal with this. I'm trying to equate this to other things in our daily lives that we can relate to. I don't think anybody in the room would send their kids to a school that had no evacuation plan, didn't know where the fire extinguishers were, didn't know if they worked, and didn't go through drills in responding to a fire. I'm being a bit dramatic, but the drama of an oil spill in the middle of the night on the west coast or east coast of Canada or in the Arctic is of huge significance to all of us.
Are you feeling more assured today that Transport Canada and the coast guard have said, be that as it may, 20 years have gone by and we don't have a national plan, which we promised to do, but we're working with companies, and we trust the plans they've put forward to us? They may or may not be public--we don't know. Is that good enough to have Canadians rest assured that the supertankers on our coast, if they hit ground--heaven forbid--will be cleaned up and contained adequately?