I'm very proud of our system, and we compare very well to the United States.
What you're referring to is a recent directive that came out of the United States with respect to the operation of trains and what they should be doing. We already have those standards here in Canada. We already have a decreased level of speed for certain goods. The difficulty with respect to rerouting, which the United States is looking at, is that we simply don't have the same amount of infrastructure they do, or the same number of options they have in terms of a rail network.
Let me back it up by saying we've worked very hard with the Federation of Canadian Municipalities on their concerns with respect to transportation of dangerous goods in communities. We issued a protective directive to ensure that they're receiving the information they can and that the communication between the railways and the communities is there so that they can talk about the transportation of dangerous goods in their area as well.
The DOT-111 cars, as I mentioned earlier just for your sake, we are going to phase out. The point of decision is how long it will take to phase out the old DOT-111s. We've already taken a step that the United States has not taken, which is to publish in the Gazette new regulations we'd like to pass to ensure that any construction of new tank cars be done to a higher standard. That does not exist in the United States and there is instead a loose agreement in the industry that this is what they'll build to. We are implementing it into regulation to ensure that it's in place.
As I mentioned, the Transportation Safety Board gave us three recommendations in January. I'm mindful of the time in which I have to report back to the Transportation Safety Board. We're going to be working with those advisory committees that we set up in order to discuss transportation of dangerous goods, means of containment, classification, and of course, response and ERAPs. With those things in hand, we'll be able to set policy moving forward and to make some decisions.