Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thanks to the witnesses for being with us today.
I am going to start with you, Mr. Webb.
In your presentation, you said that a lot of things had been said about the Driver Inc. model, but you don't have raw data in order to arrive at formal conclusions. As the Insurance Bureau of Canada representatives said, the existing and known data that we can mention include the rising number of accidents and the rising number of claims. We know that in Quebec over the last year there has been a record number of deaths in accidents involving heavy trucks. Another public number shows the rise in the number of drivers working on the Driver Inc. model.
Given all that, I am sure my question will interest you. The Motor Vehicle Transport Act allows the Department of Transport to study practices in the transport industry. That is one of the requests we have made.
Do you think that Transport Canada studying the Driver Inc. model will enable us to know more and connect the dots among these factors?