That's good to know.
First of all, I'll just say that seems awfully late in the day. Again, it's a delayed response to what was an emergent situation.
Speaking of the emergency nature, having listened to your testimony, I think the passengers were actually quite lucky that the incident wasn't worse. What if the tree had been struck and the train had derailed? How long would it have taken emergency crews to access the site? It seems as though what we're hearing is that it would have been impossible for crews to get there inside of 13 hours.
It is very troubling to me to think, if the incident had been any worse—it already was terrible for the people on board—what the response would have been. How would it have been different had there been a breach of one of the carriages, or had trains actually jumped the track and the passengers were deemed to not have been in a safe environment? It seems that we were very close to that scenario happening.
It's very troubling to me that we're being told that, in what is a fairly populated part of Ontario, nothing could be done to assist the passengers on that train any sooner than service was offered. Can you explain that to me? How is that possible? How could it have been, as my colleague said, not that far—yes, the train was difficult—from civilization, if you want to call it that, yet it was so many hours, apparently, before assistance could arrive at that train?