Monsieur Laframboise, gentlemen, if I may take a moment of your time, I would like to explain something to you. I am a long time resident of the area next to the Joffre shunting yard.
When you live next door to a shunting yard, you have to take a white cloth and wipe down your resin patio table every day, and at the end of that same day—not three weeks later—, the cloth is black. I moved just recently and I can assure you that where I live now, when we wipe down the patio table at the end of the week, the cloth is nowhere near as black as it used to be.
We are very concerned about the emissions caused by the two-stroke diesel locomotive engines. At a time when the Minister of the Environment and the Prime Minister are talking about a Canadian act to regulate air quality or “something else”, we are quite worried that the railway companies, which come under federal jurisdiction, might totally escape the grasp of any future legislation.
I am talking about a nuisance: it can even stop traffic within an entire city. It is a nuisance when industries and companies are wasting time because there is a train sitting at the level crossing for half an hour, as is regularly the case in Charny.