Thank you very much.
Mr. Danford and Mr. Carson, thank you for coming, even if it is late in the hearing process.
I found that your presentation—which I read before I came here, so it wasn't that I wasn't paying attention when you were speaking—was instructive for a couple of reasons. I hope you will correct me if I have misunderstood or misinterpreted what you said.
I think both of you dealt with the issue of the highest level of safety established by the minister, or the acceptable level of safety by the minister. I wonder whether you would spend a moment distinguishing between two.
As I understood both of your presentations, you were really talking about liability: that the minister or Transport Canada through this SMS system, as proposed, unamended, would put off to the industry the responsibility to set levels of safety and be liable for them. In one, it says the minister continues to be liable for all levels of safety, with an obligation--it's an imputed obligation--that there will always be improvements in the levels of safety.
So what is acceptable today would be the highest standard today, but it may not be the highest standard tomorrow. An acceptable standard tomorrow must, of necessity, be higher.
Could you spend a moment distinguishing the two for me?