I tried contacting—as did my father and many other residents—the public relations department, the manger of rail yard operations, and even the president of CN, for example. They don't even want to sit down and discuss it. I can't arrange a time to talk to them.
If there was legislation in place where we had to try to attempt mediation, sure, I could do that. I've waited ten years; I can wait another year. But the problem is that they don't see it as their problem. They refuse to try to implement any kind of operational standard that would take into account the residences surrounding their rail yards. They refuse to take any action to change their logistics from working at night to working during the day, when it would be less of a bother for people, because they would be at work or they would accept the fact that they live in a big city and noise goes on during the day. They just refuse to discuss it.
This is why we're at the end of our rope. This is why I put all the work into putting together these reports and making suggested modifications to the amendments. If they were willing to sit down and discuss things like reasonable corporate citizens, we wouldn't be here.
The use of the land surrounding the rail yards has changed over time. It's no different from constructing an elementary school and changing the speed limit from 50 kilometres down to 25, for the protection of the kids. The use of the land has changed; it's been urbanized.
The railways should respond in kind, but they don't even want to discuss it.