I would expect that too. That's why I wrote to the Auditor General after getting numbers from Transport Canada about qualified inspectors. The Auditor General wrote back to me after the audit, and here's what he said:
...we cannot provide any level of assurance on the information recently provided by Transport Canada officials.
If I'm at the FCM and I'm representing hundreds if not thousands of municipalities and small towns and villages, don't I have a responsibility to make sure that Transport Canada, as the national regulator, enforcer, inspector, and auditor is doing its job before I come forward with liability changes? Don't I want to see evidence up front for my municipalities, given what's happened in Lac-Mégantic?