Thank you, Mr. Keenan.
It would be important for the briefing notes that Transport Canada provides to the Parliamentary Secretary to set the record straight, so that people stop linking the 2013 study to the tragedy. The study was done before the tragedy occurred. It doesn't make sense to link the two and pretend that the 2013 recommendations were in response to the tragedy, because they were not, and the study explicitly states that. It's important to get the facts straight. There is the pre-tragedy and the post-tragedy. We would have expected that after the tragedy, the recommendations of the 2013 audit would have been followed and the process would have been accelerated.
I would like to come back to the following response by Transport Canada to one of the recommendations of the 2013 audit: “By spring 2014, Transport Canada will develop a follow-up procedure and provide all inspectors with training on the procedure to enhance the consistency of follow-up activity.”
“Consistency” means that the same follow-up and the same category of information applies to all regions. One of the findings of your last report, Ms. Hogan, is that there is still no consistency between the various follow-ups.