Along the same lines, in section 7.52, you describe the method used by the inspectors. You noted the deficiencies identified by the inspectors in the eight files that your office reviewed. The eight reports that you audited did not comply with the application of the basic rules of doing a good job.
Federal railways omitted key elements from their safety management system. We have since learned that the department was not even able to determine the exact number of incidents caused by railway companies.
Could you describe to the committee the reaction of the department to these shortcomings? If that has happened in the past, how did the department deal with private railway companies? Will it finally rectify the situation after 20 years? Twenty years is a long time. If this keeps up, officials will have worked 35 years at the Department of Transport without ever correcting the deficiencies observed.