This leads directly to my second question, which concerns the 2015-2016 main estimates.
The budget of Transport Canada has been slashed by $40 million, which is quite incomprehensible to the Canadian population, in particular to the citizens of Montérégie and the Eastern Townships who had to endure this catastrophe.
Can you explain why the budget of Transport Canada was slashed in this way when it was determined that more monitoring was needed? One of the obvious conclusions following this catastrophe is that when the industry self-regulates and self-monitors, disasters like this one occur.
How can you reconcile the priority, which is to ensure more monitoring—you explained that this is Transport Canada's responsibility—and this $40 million cut in Transport Canada's budget? We hoped and expected that that budget would have been increased. How can we explain this to the people in those regions who are directly concerned?