Thank you, Mr. Chair.
This question has two parts—one is about training and the other one is about ethics.
Let's begin by discussing training. If memory serves me right, in the report, we said that two thirds of inspectors and one third of managers had received training solely with regard to the Railway Safety Act and to the monitoring of safety management systems. As a result, we recommended that the department provide its inspectors and managers with the training they need to do their job properly.
As for the ethical side, we raised that issue because we had noted that most of the department's inspectors came from rail companies. So they are members of industry. That made us wonder whether, when it came to doing their job, those inspectors had the required objectivity to carry out the work properly and draw the correct conclusions. That is why we recommended that the department look into this matter and ensure that the inspectors were as objective as they needed to be to do their job.