Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Ferguson, you mentioned that the guidance and tools provided to inspectors for assessing federal railways' safety management systems are missing many key elements.
You basically told us of one. You said:
For example, they contain few requirements to help inspectors plan, conduct, and conclude on audits and inspections, and for following up on findings.
You've mentioned one key element. What I want to know is if you have provided to officials some advice and guidance in terms of what else is missing.
The reason I ask that is because I want to make sure officials actually understand your line of thinking in terms of what is missing in their ability to assess NSMS. If they don't clearly understand what's required from your perspective, the next audit may come around and they will have been missing something that you think they should have. So I want to understand whether you have provided them information in terms of what they were missing, outside of the one specific item you identified in your report.