Transport committee  I consider the regulations that we had in B.C. Rail to be far superior to Transport Canada's regulations, but as with anything, there can always be improvements. There are some shortfalls, but they're far superior, generally speaking.

Transport committee  Personally, I think it should concern every Canadian, because I don't think it's right when a company can fire you for what they call “conduct unbecoming of an employee”. When you're not at work and you speak out and try to say something is wrong, they fire you because of that and they call it, in their generic terminology, “conduct unbecoming of a CN employee”.

Transport committee  Absolutely.

Transport committee  Do you mean other railway companies?

Transport committee  It used to be culturally really bad in the CPR, but my understanding is that management there changed its style, going away from the adversarial management system. Although I don't know the proper terminologies, they changed their management style, and I think they're finding out that they're much more successful.

Transport committee  No, CN has gone in the opposite direction. They're very adversarial. I call it the poisoned work environment, because that's what it is. Nobody wants to go to work there. Everybody's counting the days, the months, and the years until they're gone, until they're out of there. That's not the way it was, and that's not the way it was at B.C.

Transport committee  I'm so affected it's not funny. To ride in anything moving is very hard for me.

Transport committee  Absolutely.

Transport committee  Yes. I think that ever since the caboose, the culture of railroading has been disregarded, disrespected. I think there's been a lot of disrespect in the sense that people don't understand what's going on out there, and they just think that everything's okay. They don't understand the dynamics that are involved, that when a train has to stop fast, it just can't do it.

Transport committee  I think there has been, but I'm not privy to their....

Transport committee  No, I never have.

Transport committee  Other than for my accident?

Transport committee  No. For my accident I had to go through a hearing with the company--180 questions. I had to give testimony to the Minister of Transport, which he has. It's a 53-page transcript.

Transport committee  I have a copy. If you want it, you can have it. I don't have it with me.

Transport committee  I have a copy of my testimony. Four days after my accident, they interviewed me.