As I said, the basic attitude of a safety regulator is that you always want to learn from accidents anywhere in the world. Two weeks ago, we did not know what an incident of this kind looked like in the Gulf of Mexico. Today we know. We know how grave it has become.
What we don't know is what went wrong. Is it the blowout preventer? If so, was it a design flaw? Was it the metallurgy of the metals used in preparing the device? Is it about its operation? Is it about operator's error? We do not know. And we owe it to Canadian citizens to make every effort to learn from what will happen in weeks and months to come. People will reconstruct the scene. They will analyze the smallest amount of metal they can find in the sea bottom. They'll try to explain why it happened, and as a regulator, my commitment to the citizens of this country is to make sure that these learnings are incorporated into our actual specific regulatory actions on a day-to-day basis.