Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'd like to thank both of you for being here today. As you know, this is National Rail Safety Week, so my question eventually will be for the Minister of State for Transport. I've had the opportunity this week to have some meetings with representatives of our railways, and quite frankly, I don't think I had been aware quite how comprehensive the cobweb of rail system is in Canada.
Being a GTA member of Parliament, I have the advantage of being able to use our railway system regularly in my transport back and forth between here and Toronto and consider myself very fortunate to have that opportunity. It is a wonderful service we have.
I'm very pleased with the investment that is being made in the rehabilitation of the Go Transit bridge at the south end of Aurora. I live in a community that is dependent on service to Toronto, and Go Transit provides the service between Newmarket and Union Station for my constituents. So the rehabilitation of that bridge is going to really improve the ability of Go Transit to provide service to my constituency and, really, to the constituencies of all of York region. I've also had the opportunity to speak with our regional chair, Bill Fish, who is very pleased with that investment in particular and with other investments in transportation that are coming into York region.
I wonder, though, if you could speak specifically to other investments that are being made—and this is to our Minister of State—to improve safety on our railways. So like this rehabilitation that is going into the Go Transit bridge, there must be other projects that are going on across Canada to improve rail safety, and I wonder if you could speak to that for us.