It has nothing to do with the amount of money. What it has to do with is that you operate seven days a week, 24 hours a day. You're around the clock. You go across Canada from one end to the other. You deal with weather. You deal with customers that are giving you products. You deal with many influences from outside in.
We've worked hard over the years to have schedules in place, in fact, as recently as six months ago. We've implemented more of a scheduled railroad for a very non-scheduled environment, as much as we possibly can. We have a number of employees. We all look at it only as the people that are operating the trains. Sometimes people miss that. We have rail traffic controllers who are like airline traffic controllers and give the instructions to the trains. They work 24-7. In fact, they don't get Christmas off because we always have some VIA trains that are operating at Christmastime. They're there every day.
We look at it holistically. We've taken a lot of steps to make sure.... At the top, we're worried about making sure that we have fatigue plans. We review with employees. We work with the unions to be able to implement them. At the bottom end, the employees have the right to say that they can't go on, that they're done, or that they've set themselves up or are in a situation where it just doesn't work.
But in between that, we've been working on this for a long time. There's not an easy answer. We've implemented technology to make sure that if something happens.... On every locomotive that CN uses on the main line, if there were any reason that a locomotive engineer or conductor were incapacitated, the alerter system would bring the train to a stop, and very quickly.
There are systems that we've put in place. We've worked with the unions. We will continue to work, and there are some things we do that are above and beyond the regulations. The regulations allow people to book rest—or people are even forced to book rest—after a certain amount of hours on duty. We allow people, through contract and other means, to have even more time off in between. I think that if you really sit down and look at it.... I'd love to spend about eight hours with all of you in the room and explain everything we've done, because it's a complicated subject.
But the last thing you want as a railroad is to have people out there who have absolutely no idea and are unsafe. That's the last thing we want. We would never have it happen, and it has nothing to do with the amount of money that we're spending on it.