Mr. Speaker, certainly not. The situation is not related, as the hon. member suggests.
This is not the easiest question to deal with when one is analysing statistics, but I would suggest that the hon. member compare the enormously successful Canadian system with others.
If the member compares the record of both CN and CP to those lines across the border, he will find that we have a very safe system. However, inevitably in a country with the amount of rail traffic that we have there will be some accidents. I certainly welcome his concern and interest in the subject because it is, as I said earlier, the most important priority of my department.