Thank you, Mr. Chair.
One of the major actions we took after the Lac-Mégantic tragedy was to develop a new, more robust, crash-resistant tanker standard for the transport of flammable liquids. Part of that standard also included requirements for the gradual phase-out of DOT-111 tank cars, which were proven to be less crash resistant.
As of 2016, there are no longer any tank cars of crude oil using DOT-111s; they have been completely phased out. Understanding, of course, that the phase-out schedule was risk-based, based on the volumes of dangerous goods such as crude oil and ethanol, we prioritized the phase-out of DOT-111s first, but eventually that phase-out will see the complete elimination of DOT-111s by 2025 for all flammable liquids.