Thank you.
Thank you very much for being here today. It's been very interesting hearing your testimony.
As you know, we're embarking on this study because of certain incidents. Being a new person on this committee as well as being a Canadian who's observing all this, I think the general public was quite surprised to see where the gaps were in terms of safety on the rail systems.
I'm a sociologist and I've studied communities across Canada. Of course, we recognize the fact that communities have actually grown around the railway system, the railroad tracks, the stops, and that sort of thing. We have a certain history in Canada, of course, with the railway system.
How much work do you feel has been done, not just because of this recent study perhaps but over, say, the last 5, 10, or 20 years, to gather that information and to actually look at the entire rail system and what can be done to protect it? Or has nothing been done and we're just responding to a situation here?
Perhaps Mr. Del Bosco can answer that question.