Sir, we don't disagree with any of the 56 recommendations the panel has made. We feel there's more work to do, and we're very pleased with the structure that Transport Canada has put in place to involve consultation with unions, with employees, with other railway companies, and with us in terms of bringing these recommendations down to the next level of implementation. Some of them will require change in companies such as ours. Some of them might require legislative change, and so on. And that's a process we're just getting under way with as an industry.
I don't disagree with the paragraph you just read. Where I disagree with respect to the panel—and frankly, it's probably more with some of the resulting comments from the press that came out from the panel's release—is that this is what CN is about. We do not feel we have an overreliance on discipline. It is not our intention to have a culture of fear and discipline in our company.
We firmly believe it is management's responsibility—to one of Mr. Bell's comments—to make sure the system is in place and working properly: people are trained; people are equipped; there are enough people to do the job; the work is properly planned and laid out, properly supervised; and employees have an opportunity to raise safety concerns.
I'm not saying we're perfect, because as we've said all along, and I believe as the panel has said, SMS, and SMS implementation, is a journey that is still under way. We have some way to go. But that's our intention of how to manage this.
We don't disagree with the statement that was made. We disagree with the characterization that this is how CN intends to manage safety—and it's not.