Thank you, Mr. Chair.
First of all, I'd like to thank Mr. Case for his testimony. I haven't had the opportunity to ask him questions so far, but I may do so later on, depending on my speaking time.
I wanted to respond to something that was raised by one of my colleagues, and that's the issue of transporting batteries, which is a new technology. I find that relevant and interesting. How could we intervene on that? Nevertheless, I wonder whether it was a self-serving or disinterested question.
We're talking about the transportation of dangerous goods in general. When I talk to people in my riding, that's a concern. What happened in Lac-Mégantic has to do with the transportation of dangerous goods. As the mayor of Saint-Basile-le-Grand said, the concern is the same in his area.
In general, people talk to us mainly about the transportation of those famous petroleum products because they're the dangerous goods that circulate the most on our tracks. In the case of the Lac-Mégantic tragedy, petroleum products exploded, destroyed the town and killed 47 people. In my riding, people are concerned about the effects of transporting those petroleum products, especially since the construction of the Kildair facility in Sorel.
Mr. Lessard, you said earlier that the best strategy to prevent that kind of disaster was to eliminate risks at the source. To do that, we need fewer petroleum products on our tracks. Right now, in Quebec, but elsewhere in the world as well, we're working on an energy transition, we're working to get out of oil by eliminating those products, or at least by greatly reducing their quantity. Do you think that's part of the solution?