Thank you, Madam Chair.
It occurs to me in reading the history of Canada that, next to hockey and lacrosse, being critical of big railways is a national pastime. You guys have a lot of moving parts. I appreciate that, like the airlines, by and large, every day, everything goes well. Of course, our job here is to look at the exceptions and to see what may need to happen in order to prevent them.
When it comes to the area of fatigue management, we had a long discussion with some of the bargaining units. After some pressing, they found the way to tell us that they were concerned about the collective bargaining process for determining work schedules, where people were allowed to front-end load shifts in order to get extra time off at the end of the cycle.
Would it surprise you, and what would your reaction be, if this were taken out of SMS, out of collective bargaining, and put back into regulation?