Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Madam Minister, you stated that Lac-Mégantic was an extremely rare event, yet since Lac-Mégantic there have been upwards of a dozen collisions in North America involving oil transported by rail. The result of the most recent event, in Gogama, Ontario, is that CN has voluntarily reduced its own speed, which is five miles an hour slower than the speed that you have suggested they should run at.
The railroads have also provided the ministry with risk assessments, which I'm sure have enlightened you in terms of this amount of money, but what do those risk assessments show? First, can we get copies of the risk assessments? CN has already said that they will.... Second, what do those risk assessments show about the risk in heavily populated urban areas such as Toronto and what the residents there are facing in terms of a heightened risk because of the 400-fold increase in transportation of crude?