Yes, you are correct.
The commissioner of the environment and sustainable development is an assistant auditor general within my office. I regularly engage with the commissioner as he selects audits and tables them.
The audit you refer to was the follow-up audit on the transportation of dangerous goods which the interim commissioner of the environment and sustainable development tabled back in November 2020.
We did talk through some of his messages at that time. I absolutely agree with him. All modes of transportation are inherently dangerous, including transportation on railways. When you transport dangerous goods, there is even more of an inherent risk there.
That's why it's really important that Transport Canada and the federal government do everything in their power to ensure that they have taken the right measures to improve rail safety. Rail safety requires many partners to be involved as well, such as the railway companies, the municipalities where the tracks are and the federal government with its oversight responsibility. All of that should really be measured for its effectiveness, and not just happening; we should be doing it for a reason.