Thank you for the question.
Yes, we've expressed a lot of concerns in the past. Before we get to the brickbat, we'll give out the credit. The Railway Safety Act advisory council, the way it was going to be set up, was going to be a disaster. I'll give full credit to the minister and to our parliamentary secretary here for bringing in a procedure and a process that I think, in the long run, will produce exactly the same results as we've seen in the transportation of dangerous goods. We're not there yet.
Just like in the TDG world and the aviation world before, comments I've had from senior bureaucrats are that the amendment we got in other bills was one of the best checks they had. What they said, very simply, Mrs. Gallant, to the senior people was, “Yes, we could do that, but those damn Teamsters are going to get in front of a transport committee. And what's the public going to think about it?”
It's one of those little tools in our tool box. I hope we never have to come back to this committee for safety. It's just in our tool box for making the regulatory process work better.