When I talk to my constituents, they are going to say to me, “Brad, I see all the metallurgical coal. We just wish that we had more pipelines and that the Trans Mountain pipeline was that much larger. We feel safer using pipelines than all of this crude oil being transported in an iconic area for our wild salmon stocks.”
I can't give them an answer on what Transport Canada would do when and if there is another disaster like what we experienced in 2021. If you haven't been to the area, you guys should check out what happened at Jackass summit. A portion of the highway the size of about two football fields was completely washed out. They've only just finished doing that work.
This is really top of mind for many people in the area. Any information you could provide to this committee would be important. We want to protect our salmon.