Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
Good morning, Ms. Hogan. It's always a pleasure to welcome you to the committee.
Mr. Green, I agree wholeheartedly with what you said about the importance of the report on drinking water. However, you will understand that, given what happened in Lac-Mégantic, the report having to do with rail safety is equally important to me.
Ms. Hogan, since you released your reports, I have had the opportunity to speak with people in my riding, people in Lac-Mégantic. Imagine if those people were made aware of one of your statements:
I am very concerned that [...] eight years after our last audit, there is still much left to do to improve the oversight of rail safety in Canada.
I note that this audit, conducted in June 2013, predated the Lac-Mégantic tragedy, which occurred in July.
Ms. Hogan, the Standing Committee on Transportation, Infrastructure and Communities had the opportunity to go to Lac-Mégantic and do a study on this. The Transportation Safety Board of Canada has done reports. A lot of analysis has been done.
What can we do to prevent issues like this from coming up in your next report? It is unacceptable for the public to hear things like this from the Auditor General of Canada, and for the public to see that there is so much more to be done.
I would like you to give me a path forward because, frankly, I don't know how to approach this anymore. I have done everything in my power, but I don't want to read statements like that anymore.