Thank you for being here.
Ms. Chow has cited the Transportation Safety Board, correctly, as a reliable source for questions related to rail safety. She has also advocated the positive train control system.
Doing these two things does create a certain contradiction, because the Transportation Safety Board has not recommended that Transport Canada implement the positive train control system.
Minister, you correctly point out that the United States is facing serious implementation problems with this system. The costs appear to be between $10 billion and $13 billion. The railways are asking for a delay of five years in implementation. Originally it was scheduled for December of 2015. They now seek to have it delayed an additional five years, to 2020.
All of this demonstrates the enormous complexity and cost associated with this system.
Can you comment, Minister, on our approach with respect to this system here in Canada?