Thank you very much for that question.
I will start, and my colleague who's the responsible ADM will expand on the consultations and discussions that he has held.
Since I started as the Deputy Minister of Transport, I have crossed the country at least once, if not twice. Every time that I have been in one of our regions, I have spent time with our inspectors without any management present. So that's what I have been doing. Now we are going to take that to the next level. We're instituting an advisory group of inspectors to the deputy minister, so we will have our front-line inspectors as advisers to me so that I get to actually hear the front-line issues and the concerns as they hear them. We feel that this is an important avenue for our front-line staff to have access to senior management.
We have been working with the unions. Our union meetings are not only at the specific branch and responsibility area level, but department-wide. Our executive group meets with the unions, all our unions, now every four months. Actually, this afternoon we're having our meetings with the unions. We met with them previously, I think, in the last couple of months. So an enhanced engagement with our unions is important.
Regarding the industry, we work closely with industry within the rules and within the clear understanding that we are the regulator and we regulate them. However, safety is not the responsibility of just one party. It is the responsibility of the government, it is the responsibility of industry, and it is the responsibility of the travellers. We have to make sure that all these pieces come together so that Canadians have the best safety in the world.
Maybe my colleague can give you a sense of what he and his staff have done, but also the general conclusions that he has brought home.