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Transport committee Yes. If the committee so decides that they would like to see it, we could certainly table it, Mr. Chair.
November 27th, 2013Committee meeting
Gerard McDonald
Transport committee We will be appearing shortly before the public accounts committee. We would hope to have a plan available for the committee at that time.
November 27th, 2013Committee meeting
Gerard McDonald
Transport committee That would be up to the public accounts committee to.... We expect it could be as early as this year.
November 27th, 2013Committee meeting
Gerard McDonald
Transport committee We plan to table it with the committee when it calls us.
November 27th, 2013Committee meeting
Gerard McDonald
Transport committee Yes, I will.
November 27th, 2013Committee meeting
Gerard McDonald
Transport committee Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I have some familiar faces with me today. Just to review, I have with me Luc Bourdon, the director general of rail safety at Transport Canada, and Madam Marie-France Dagenais, the director general of the transportation of dangerous goods directora
November 27th, 2013Committee meeting
Gerard McDonald
Transport committee Exactly, yes.
November 25th, 2013Committee meeting
Gerard McDonald
Transport committee Absolutely. In fact, that's embedded in law in the rail industry. It's a common carrier obligation that they have to carry the products that are presented to them.
November 25th, 2013Committee meeting
Gerard McDonald
Transport committee I guess it's in the eye of the person you're talking about, Mr. Chair. I'm sure there are some who would think we haven't gone far enough on safety management systems and that we haven't implemented them as thoroughly as we should. We note that progress is incremental and we're
November 25th, 2013Committee meeting
Gerard McDonald
Transport committee It relates to the transportation of dangerous goods, but obviously any company, within their SMS, if there is a regulatory requirement, must have a methodology for ensuring that the regulatory requirement is met. Protective directions carry the same weight of law as any regulatio
November 25th, 2013Committee meeting
Gerard McDonald
Transport committee That's correct.
November 25th, 2013Committee meeting
Gerard McDonald
Transport committee Well, there's the regulatory construct within it. An SMS is in essence a way for us to measure that the company on a day-to-day basis is monitoring their performance against the required operating regulations that we have.
November 25th, 2013Committee meeting
Gerard McDonald
Transport committee Yes. Instead of our coming to a company on a periodic basis, be it one year, two years, or six months, and kicking the tires, say, to see whether or not things are working properly, it institutes a system whereby the company has an obligation on a day-to-day basis to ask whether
November 25th, 2013Committee meeting
Gerard McDonald
Transport committee Certainly, Mr. Chair. If that's the wish of the committee, we can provide that information.
November 25th, 2013Committee meeting
Gerard McDonald
Transport committee That's with respect to the rail side.
November 25th, 2013Committee meeting
Gerard McDonald