Thank you.
There was another fire involving DOT-111s yesterday in Lynchburg, Virginia. The river was on fire. The issue of the DOT-111s is occupying a lot of our time because of Lac-Mégantic, but one of the things that the Transportation Safety Board told us is those vehicles are unsafe even at 20 miles per hour; that they will break and open and spill and catch fire even at 20 miles an hour. CP told us they're not prepared to go slow.
When we asked the ministry at a town hall in my riding last week—the minister's chief of staff was there and representatives from Transport Canada—what is the appropriate speed, their answer was that they've asked the rail companies to do a risk assessment.
I'm going to come back to you, Mr. Therien, because you made this part of your presentation. Is it appropriate for the rail companies themselves to do the risk assessment about how fast they should go through communities or whether they should re-route around communities given that it's a conflict of interest for them. They may be prepared to take a risk but the public isn't.