Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses for coming.
I have to agree with you also, Mr. Boissonneault. It was not only the firefighters but also the first responders who did a great job at Lac-Mégantic, and of course made us proud. The incident was unfortunate, but these are the things that we have to deal with.
I'm not a regular member of the committee, but the way I look at it is that there are two things: prevention, and I think we spoke a bit on that; and what actually is going to happen in the case of an incident, whether minor or major.
I'm trying to understand how you would view it if an incident were to happen. You said yourself that there are thousands of cars going around. You're not going to put fire trucks at every stop or potentially dangerous place because you can have a train derailed in the middle of a major urban centre without flammables and it could cause damage.
How do you react when an incident is going to happen, in terms of accessing the data on that railcar, or accessing the first responders and whether it's medical people or firefighters who are needed? In your view, how does all of that get put together if an incident were to happen?