Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses here. I'm sizing up the full scope of your testimony. I'm glad these hearings are a couple of hours long, because what I seem to hear more than anything else in your testimony is that, well, it's somebody else's fault here. You've essentially slammed BC Rail. You've discredited an employee of yours, Mr. Rhodes. You've blamed the weather. You've blamed your predecessors. You've blamed workers. You've explained away train speed in an accident in Montmagny. You've said that Transport Canada inspectors are wrong.
The net effect of all of that is that your early sincerity in your opening comments and in the initial part of your testimony has disappeared into a bunch of excuses.
Now, we've sort of danced around the issue of trust a little bit here. I'm going to ask a very direct question and I'd like a yes or no answer, if I could get one. Do you acknowledge that CN has broken trust with Canadians?