I'm going to challenge you on that. We had testimony from Mr. Rhodes and I believe it was John Holliday on this whole issue of taking bad-ordered trains and putting a defect mark on the train. In some instances, in fact, supervisors would then come along when these supposedly defective trains had been marked and they would take the card off and those trains would be repaired to the American standard, to a lower standard, in fact, so that the trains could continue to run. That's not only reflected in the testimony we had from those two individuals, it's also reflected in phase two of the audit report that was done on CN.
I'm going to just refer to that:
Over 75% of Car Inspectors interviewed from four locations stated that it was not uncommon for a car that had been bad-ordered to have the defect card removed by the supervisor, and the car allowed to continue in service.
That is out of the audit report. You're talking about always trying to apply the higher standard. The report doesn't reflect that. The evidence we've had from two witnesses who are employed by your railway doesn't reflect that.
How do you justify the statement you've just made, that you're always trying to achieve the highest standard?