I am not saying there has been no maintenance, but there has been virtually none on the section I am talking about. That can be checked.
The issue since July has been the MMA line. Speeds have had to be reduced to 10 miles an hour on increasing numbers of lines over the past 10 years. It has been said that maintenance has been done on that line, but if you ask people who live in the region, they will tell you there has been none. If you ask people who work there, they will tell you there has been no maintenance. CP sold the line to MMA because it needed investment; that is clear.
We are not saying that no maintenance is being done on Canada's railways. We are talking about specific lines. We are asking that those lines be upgraded so that the speed limit is no longer 10 miles an hour.
Someone said that speed limits are lowered when work is being done on highways. That is true, but that is because people are at work. For the lines we are talking about, however, speeds are reduced when no one is doing any work. There is currently no obligation to do work when speed is limited to 10 miles an hour. It is important to mention that.
You asked a question about getting information in real time. I clarified that earlier. In fact, we really want to know what is going on in our region. The idea is not to learn one year later what goods were transported across our region. We want to know what the situation is now.
We could use another term; you are definitely right. However, when we talk about getting information in real time, that means that we want to know what goods are currently being transported around our region. It does not mean knowing what goods are being transported right now, but it could mean knowing in advance what goods will be transported next week or the following month. In this way, we can anticipate what is coming and determine whether we are ready to take action.
That is what I mean by the expression "in real time". We are responsible at all times for knowing whether we are able to take action in our region and how we can do that.