Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Mr. Rhodes for coming, and thank you for being here and having this opportunity.
I understand in what you've said there are two things. First of all, we're talking about increased derailments--2005 being a spike year, in which there was a particularly high number, in two areas that we've seen. One is generally across Canada, for a variety of reasons, perhaps indicating that there isn't adequate attention to rail track maintenance and equipment maintenance across Canada. The second area is British Columbia, in particular, following the CN takeover of B.C. Rail.
As I understand it, the term that's used is GOI--general operating instructions--which is sort of the manual, the way they operate the railway system. The term that's used for most of Canada, with relatively flat land, is either “flatland” or “water grade”, I think.