Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the officials who are here.
The train that was the subject of the tragedy in Lac-MĂ©gantic travelled, if I'm correct, through Windsor, Detroit, Toronto and Montreal before its tragedy.
I want to pick up on the questions from my colleague Mr. Lawrence.
We can talk all we want about the phasing out of cars, producing some guide or document that I suppose you look at when a tragedy has occurred and the number of recommendations that have been implemented, but it seems obvious that, longer-term, the answer is that oil and gas in particular should be travelling by pipeline and not on rail. I realize that there's an issue with the capacity of pipelines, certainly because the current government has an aversion to building pipelines, but, longer-term, that is a better answer than all the risks that are being taken.
I wonder whether the department has voiced that concern to other federal departments or to the respective ministers of transport, that there is a better way to do things and that we need to move away from this.