Basically, under your audit system, between 2001 and 2005, you nevertheless reviewed the SMS and did not realize that the condition of the rails or of the equipment was deteriorating. After several accidents happened, it finally took a special investigation for you to realize what was broken within CN. If those investigations had not taken place, things would probably have kept on deteriorating.
Employees of the company who testified before the committee told us that they had never heard about the safety management system. That's rich! It has been around since 2001. Men even lost their lives. So don't tell me that you did your job. Your monitoring system failed to detect what was wrong with CN's network. Finally, in 2005 and 2006, you conducted specific investigations which is when you realized, upon taking a closer look at your locomotives, that there were particular problems.
Today, Mr. Bourdon, you are telling us that the situation has not been corrected yet. Men had to die for you to reach this point. That is extremely deplorable. This happened under the Liberals. Today, people are asking questions, but something happened which resulted in your not being able, with your monitoring system, to detect the fact that your network was deteriorating, and that this was causing more and more accidents to happen, in a nutshell.