Mr. Speaker, while I do recognize that the minister has in fact acted, my question was not about whether or not the minister has acted in reaction to events, but whether or not the system as it exists is not broken. I still maintain my conclusion that the system as it exists, where in fact we have to wait until 47 people die before we take action, is a system that Canadians cannot trust.
As we discovered again yesterday, another incident involving the DOT-111s took place in Lynchburg, Virginia, where a river was on fire with oil from the DOT-111 cars that crashed in a city in the U.S. It is only a matter of time before it happens again in Canada.
Three years is too long. If these cars must be used, they must be slowed down to a speed that is appropriate for the safety of those vehicles, and 40 miles an hour is way too fast. We learned today that in parts of Manitoba, trains go at five miles an hour in reaction to the safety concerns of the communities they go through.
The system is not working. It needs to be fixed.