Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you to our witnesses for appearing today, and for your report.
There is an awful lot of detail, several hundred pages, in this report, and we've seen in the line of questioning so far that everybody is seizing on a number of the small details. It's easy to get lost in the details, but I want to try to crystallize this report, if I possibly can, to what's really at the heart of these couple of hundred pages or so.
Is the achievement of safety management systems, at stage five in your continuum, at the heart of the fullness of safety for our rail system in Canada? Is that what this all really boils down to at the end of it, getting to stage five on the continuum with respect to SMS? Or is there more than that? I'm trying to get to the heart of it.