Thank you.
Transport Canada inspectors can look at that issue.
I want to quote very briefly from page 67 of the rail advisory panel report before passing to Mr. Komarnicki.
Under “Implementation of Safety Management Systems”, the panel said:
It has been nearly seven years since railways have been required to implement SMS. While progress has certainly been made, in the Panel’s opinion, the implementation of SMS across the rail transportation system and by the regulator —that is, Transport Canada— has been inconsistent. The Panel expected that, after so many years, both the regulator and the industry would have made more progress.
Forget the opinion of the committee, whether they be government members or opposition members. Would any other credible independent third party give a similar assessment today of the railway companies with respect to the implementation of SMS, now that we're six years down the road from this report, or for that matter of Transport Canada? Would they hold the same opinion, that here we are again, six years down the road, and the implementation has been inconsistent?