Except the alternate route goes through Plaster Rock and nobody lives there. That's the problem. There's a whole lot of people who live between Miramichi and Bathurst who need the train.
Switching gears a little bit to the issue of rail safety and the DOT-111 tank cars, which as far back as 1991 were deemed to be unsafe for the transportation of dangerous goods, you and your officials will have noted there has been a 600-fold increase in the use of these cars for transportation of dangerous goods in Canada, in that crude oil is considered a dangerous good. It isn't currently considered a dangerous good in the same manner by Transport Canada. At least that's what they told us in committee in November, that the DOT-111s are safe for the transportation of crude oil, but they're looking at that.
There are two things. It appears that Transport Canada has not yet done a risk analysis of this 600-fold increase in the transportation of what is, as we discovered in Lac-Mégantic, a dangerous good. In addition, you suggested that we should be following the same kinds of regulations that are going on in the States. As far as I am aware, the U.S. is way ahead of us in some aspects of that. They have now ordered trains to go slow through cities. We have not. They have ordered that trains not go through certain large cities. We have not. What is the ministry doing about making our system as safe as that in the U.S.?