Thank you, Chair.
Good morning, everyone, and thank you for your testimony.
The issue of rail safety is of paramount importance in the area that I live in and represent. The City of Vaughan is home to CN's largest rail yard in the country, the MacMillan yard, and Canada Pacific's, CP's, busiest intermodal facility in the country is located on the west side of my riding. I have a rail line going over the main artery of a regional road here along Highway 7 and another bridge going over a very densely populated area with many seniors, Woodbridge Avenue, here in the heart of the riding.
To add to that matter, I grew up in northern British Columbia and Prince Rupert, and they have a very busy rail facility there, and the coal port and the grain elevator. Obviously that's been my exposure to rail and rail safety. It's of paramount importance and always on my mind for my residents first and foremost.
I just want to pull up the report, and I want to go to the AG. I've read very intently paragraphs 5.56 and 5.57, in which the Auditor General speaks to the 66 inspections conducted between September 2018 and August 2020 that required a railway to take follow-up action. It seems that our railway operators have quite effectively followed up on those inspections.
Can you comment on that, Auditor General, please?