Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
I'm very pleased to join my colleagues in welcoming the witnesses here today.
I'll go straight to the point of SMS and what you referred to as generalist inspectors. I've come to understand that our safety management systems were to be an additional layer by Transport Canada to ensure a safe and reliable transportation system. It seems there is deep concern with the fact that it's clear we have abandoned a number of other regulatory means of assuring compliance and have wholeheartedly gone to the SMS system. That is troubling, from what I hear from witnesses.
I also want to raise the issue of generalist inspectors. We heard from, I think, Transport Canada early on when we were doing our rail safety study that we now have multimodal inspectors. I'm assuming that's what you mean by a generalist.
I just want to give you a chance to follow up on that.