Transport committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. I'm delighted to be here. I think it's fantastic that this committee is taking the time to look at innovation and technology across the transportation sector. Of course, I don't understand why you'd want to talk about any mode other than rail,

Transport committee  Thanks, Dwight. Mr. Chairman, I'm mindful of the time, so maybe what I'll do is just skip to our last slide, which is a conclusion. I again thank the committee for taking the time to look at innovation and technology. This has been a very quick snapshot of the kinds of investm

Transport committee  Thank you. You asked also about commuter rail. It's an interesting history we have. When my grandfather was the mayor of Ottawa, he was instrumental in purchasing the Ottawa Electric Railway, which became OC Transpo. We went into busing, ripped up all of our rail lines. Now, bac

Transport committee  It's a good question. Why don't we start from an engineering perspective. It will probably be more enlightening.

Transport committee  Yes, it's a nice problem to have. I think it shows the support for rail. But just to answer your question specifically, I believe there's a lot more scope for electrifying commuter rail first, but of course those things require public investments. Part of the importance of looki

Transport committee  Yes. The other thing to keep in mind is that in freight our story in Canada is that we are moving 72% of everything in this country, and yet we have 3% of emissions for the transportation sector, so we're already a tremendous sustainability story. If anything, what we need is to

Transport committee  Thank you. I actually really appreciate that question. I'll say again that I'm relatively new to the rail sector. There's a tremendous safety culture within the rail business and our safety record is fantastic, but where our safety record is not great is really in those crossing

Transport committee  Within cities.

Transport committee  That is a very good question. I will begin and then I will ask my colleagues to answer your question as well. I think in terms of fatigue, probably the most significant thing we could do to monitor what's going on with our workers, especially the drivers of trains, is to introdu

Transport committee  Dwight, did you want to add anything to this debate?

Transport committee  I have no idea, but hopefully one of these engineers will be able to answer the question.

Transport committee  I'll ask Mike Lowenger, who is VP of operations and regulatory affairs at the Railway Association of Canada. He has been in the railway industry for 38 years. My understanding is that people who feel that they are at that limit can certainly take themselves out of service. Ma

Transport committee  If I understand your question properly, you want to know what percentage of our costs relate to fuel.

Transport committee  The specific example here is that during the passing of Bill S-4, the Railway Safety Act, we asked for the exemption to be 12 months instead of six months. That's simply because we operate in four seasons, and in order to introduce a new technology, we need to test it in all of t

Transport committee  That's one of the issues, yes.