Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to the gentleman from CN for being with us today to answer our questions about what occurred over the holiday period, which were pretty troubling events that left a lot of passengers in a very difficult situation.
I'm a little bit surprised by some of the comments, especially around the severity of conditions. This is similar to what we heard from the airports at one of our previous meetings, which is that they didn't have contingency plans for the meteorological conditions they experienced. In this case, it was the rate of snowfall.
In the case of this incident, you mentioned that you figure it was a once-in-25-year event, which to me doesn't seem like a terribly improbable occurrence. I'm curious what the specific conditions were that made it so extraordinary and challenging.
You run trains in all sorts of weather conditions. I'm from northern British Columbia. I know CN operates trains in cold weather, in lots of precipitation and in all sorts of other conditions.
What was the confluence of events that made this particularly challenging?