Transport committee  It's a very good question. We challenged ourselves. You get to a plateau, and how do you get to the next level of sustained improvement? I have to tell you that we've been investigating a lot around the philosophy of just culture. Again, the just culture approach isn't one of d

Transport committee  We have approximately 15,000.

Transport committee  I sure hope so. I believe the actions we're taking will enable us to do that. I'm confident we'll continue to see continual progress. If we don't, from my perspective we'll need to regroup and look at why it's not continuing to trend up.

Transport committee  I think the railway safety officer is the new inspector title Transport Canada is looking at, not the railways. I do agree with Mr. Lewis' and the panel's recommendations with regard to the training and requirements for Transport as well.

Transport committee  There are two questions in there. First, I'd just like to say that most dangerous commodities, which we call toxic inhalation commodities—chlorine, anhydrous ammonia, etc.—today are not restricted to any location. Restrictions and regulations are being developed, as we speak, in

Transport committee  I can tell you that there is absolute joint accountability. I hesitate to talk about incentives, but I can tell you that my president has incentives, I have incentives, and our employees have “gain share” proposals in our collective agreements. We're all incented to the same goal

Transport committee  Absolutely. No problem.

Transport committee  That's a very good question. Again, these are frequencies. But let me talk about the actual number of accidents and the difference between FRA reporting.... I would agree with Mr. Miller's comments in terms of recommendations. We can go further on the panel's recommendations on

Transport committee  We are constantly looking at new technologies and new equipment. As part of our planning process, we believe, as I said earlier, we will see an escalation of technology capability. In terms of moving forward on this as per Mr. Lewis' recommendation, we believe that with the help

Transport committee  We do extensive environmental planning, and yes, we do agree with the recommendation. We would like to explore further with Transport and the committee and the advisory panel as well, to potentially strengthen those recommendations. But we believe that environment is equally impo

Transport committee  I'm absolutely aware of Mr. Lewis' comments. As I said earlier, it's a continuous journey. The rating of between a three and a four is something that I think is an accurate assessment of where Canadian Pacific is at right now. We believe that our long-term output safety matrix,

Transport committee  Thank you. I appreciate your comments. We're not satisfied with our safety performance, either on train accidents or personal...and I would say it's a journey. We've made great progress and we have more to go. We're very focused through our disciplined process. We're very much s

Transport committee  Thank you for the question. Our network is approximately 14,000 miles. On any given day, as of today, we have 58,000 rail cars moving. We have over 500 trains moving across our network in Canada and in the United States as we speak. Under regulation we are required to inspect vi

Transport committee  In Quebec we have two track evaluation cars. We contract out what we call our rail testing with a company by the name of Sperry Rail, Inc. We have literally hundreds of devices. I don't know specifically how many we have in the province of Quebec, but we have literally hundreds o

Transport committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just to comment on why we need to be out of here quite sharply, I need to get back because we're doing our annual president's awards at CP and are recognizing a number of teams and individuals for outstanding safety behaviour that we experienced in the l