I'll pass it to Jeff, and I'll add a little comment, just to clarify for committee members.
In short, enforcement of those rules is a provincial responsibility. However, what we are asking the national government and committees to do is to audit carriers. Over 90% of the trucking companies in this province, Ontario, are known as “satisfactory—unaudited”. What does that mean, folks? Nobody knows anything about them. Nobody has visited them, ever. We need to change our thinking about how we audit and govern our trucking industry from a safety perspective.
I take no great pleasure in what I'm about to say: Do not trust us. You can trust my members. They will always do the right thing and put safety first. They will park a truck and park a driver if they believe that truck is unsafe or that driver isn't fit for the road. They will forgo the money. However, there are a growing number of carriers who couldn't care less, and you just heard about it. They will put a driver in an unsafe truck, and they couldn't care less about who they impact. As I just said to you, 25% cent of carriers that ESDC goes back to see and to enforce are gone.
