Thank you, Minister. I have a second question I want to put to you. Time is ticking, and I am cognizant of it. It has to do with rail safety.
This committee has committed to examining rail safety when it has the time to get to it. Lately my colleague from North Vancouver, the vice-chair of this committee, Don Bell, has been responding to rail safety issues, particularly in B.C.
We've seen a lot of accidents on CN track. CN derailments jumped 35% last year. Your predecessor, Minister Lapierre, ordered an audit of CN safety management systems. He pledged to make the audit public once it had been completed. We had an election. The audit's been completed. You got it in June; your office received the audit in June, four months ago.
In July, unbeknownst to any member of Parliament, to my knowledge, you secretly issued a ministerial order to CN, under section 32 of the Railway Safety Act--the first time a minister has ever exercised such an extraordinary action and power--after CN reportedly failed to address the safety deficiencies found in the audit. I understand CN is now appealing the order, but there is no reason, to my mind, that you cannot release the audit to us and confirm the details of your subsequent section 32 order against CN, as the previous minister promised.
Can you assure this committee now, today, that you will in fact release both those documents?