Transport committee  Obviously with any regulation you have to consult—and we have an obligation to consult—with all those who may be affected with regard to that particular regulation, to assess what the potential benefits and costs of bringing in a regulation are, and to give Canadians an adequate

Transport committee  No. It's primarily post-Lac-Mégantic that we have been looking at whether crude should be an ERAPable good.

Transport committee  That's part of our consultation with our colleagues in the U.S. As you can appreciate, these cars move all across North America, so it would become very difficult for us to regulate a phase-out unilaterally, but this is one of the aspects, in addition to designing the new standar

Transport committee  Yes, and that new standard has been developed. As Madame Dagenais said, it will be given the force of law. Even though tank cars already are being built to that standard, it will be given the force of law, hopefully within the next couple of weeks.

Transport committee  I can't recall the Transportation Safety Board recommendations verbatim, but I believe their recommendation was to develop a new standard for the 111. As I said, that has been done, and we're on the next generation after that particular standard. We're constantly trying to impro

Transport committee  Again, it varies from mode to mode, but as the government indicated in their Speech from the Throne, that's something they want to look at, certainly on the rail side. It can take various forms, from insurance to funds, to what have you.

Transport committee  What's subject to an ERAP is something we constantly look at. As we gain new information, we look at what goods should be ERAPable, as we say. Given the events at Lac-Mégantic and the concerns over certain types of crude, like Bakken, from the Bakken fields, that is something we

Transport committee  We're constantly monitoring the level of employment we have in our inspectorate. We want to make sure it remains current and that we have a sufficient number of inspectors to carry out the planned risk-based inspection for the year. We have a number of initiatives ongoing to enc

Transport committee  When we talk about the world-class tanker safety system, there are three elements that we feel any good response and prevention system should have. The first of those three elements is prevention. You don't want the accident to take place, so what can you do as an organization or

Transport committee  Yes. A port would know any good that is being transported to it. There would be a documentation of what is arriving at the port, and the port would ensure that what they're receiving is actually what they have been told they would receive.

Transport committee  Mr. Chair, I'll answer the question in a bit of a general manner, because I don't know the specifics of the port of Montreal itself. Maybe my colleague might be able to add some colour to my answer. In terms of the security of ports, the Government of Canada has invested a large

Transport committee  We'd like to think we played some small part in that, but we're only one player in the system. I feel it's certainly a more diligent focus on safety. The fact that we have introduced safety management systems hopefully has pushed the safety culture further down into the company.

Transport committee  Companies are paying greater attention to safety now than they have in the past. We certainly noticed a marked change in the culture probably post the Railway Safety Act review. In the mid-2000s there was a spate of accidents that caused a great degree of concern. We had additi

Transport committee  We see the TransCAER program as an excellent model to follow, and actually it was with this in mind that we developed our protective direction on information sharing. While we have some limited ability to regulate how information is shared among municipalities and railways, we

Transport committee  It would be 600 incidents; I would not necessarily characterize all of them as serious incidents.