Thank you very much to our witnesses for being here.
One of the things I struggle with when I'm dealing with safety generally is that it's very hard, in my mind, to balance anything against safety. If you're talking about rights, I feel as though the public is always going to side with what's safest, so I feel that this is a very difficult discussion. When we talk about tragic anecdotes such as the Burlington incident, it's very difficult for me to say we should do anything except what's safest. However, to satisfy my own position on issues such as this, I'd really love to see if there's objective data we can look at to back up the assertion that these measures are going to enhance safety.
Do we have a study or quantitative data that actually demonstrates that the use of these recorders is going to improve safety in the Canadian rail industry?