Mr. Speaker, I want to go back in time a little. I did some reminiscing and I would like to inform the member that, yes, we have lost a number of railways. I have lost a number of miles in my constituency, albeit we knew some time ago that it was inevitable.
I am reminded of the words of Will Rogers who visited western Canada. He made the comment that Canadians were building railways just for the fun of it.
I do not entirely disagree with what my hon. colleague said, but from my time as a boy until now, when I look at the various safety factors that we have now compared to what we had then, we do have more safety factors concerning the railways. The hon. member is quite right. The unit trains of coal which come out of Wyoming or come out of Estevan heading east are over 110 cars. Most grain trains are 110 cars.