Mr. Speaker, I thank the hon. member for his question.
We have sent two observers to the "Operation Respond" sites in the United States and they will continue to be there monitoring what is taking place. If they come across procedures or come up with suggestions that would improve our system, we would be very pleased to look into those. That is why they are there.
I would like to add that right now we do have a very good emergency response information centre, the Canadian Transport Emergency Centre, or CANUTEC, which operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Concerning his last question with respect to sites in Canada, if these are proceeded with, we will look into incorporating them into the types of studies we are doing at the present time.