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Transport committee Nobody could have a problem with that.
February 17th, 2011Committee meeting
Gregory Percy
February 17th, 2011Committee meeting
Gregory Percy
Transport committee Of course not.
February 17th, 2011Committee meeting
Gregory Percy
Transport committee No, but please—
February 17th, 2011Committee meeting
Gregory Percy
Transport committee I think I actually responded to that question. Because the railway operating certificate is not specific about the obligations to be imposed, it's very difficult to come up with a cost estimate. What I did say--and I think it would be echoed by my colleagues--is that the increme
February 17th, 2011Committee meeting
Gregory Percy
Transport committee I would agree. If I may, I'd like to give an example of the UTA, in this case GO Transit, actually even exceeding the standards set out by Transport Canada for safety at level crossings. As GO started to purchase rail corridors, we made the decision to maximize the safety of eve
February 17th, 2011Committee meeting
Gregory Percy
Transport committee I think the dollars are driven off the rigour in the railway operating certificate, and the detail is absent at this point really for us to put a dollar figure on.
February 17th, 2011Committee meeting
Gregory Percy
Transport committee Exactly. We do not have a figure, but the costs will be associated with a heightened level of due diligence compliance inspection. I think the important thing that we could ask the committee to really understand is that under these circumstances we will go to the class ones and
February 17th, 2011Committee meeting
Gregory Percy
Transport committee We have a third party doing safety audits--
February 17th, 2011Committee meeting
Gregory Percy
Transport committee The commercial contract today between our commuter rail agency and a class one requires the class one to keep the railway corridor and whatever aspect of operations they are involved with consistent with all safety standards that exist today. We pay for that privilege today, and
February 17th, 2011Committee meeting
Gregory Percy
Transport committee GO Transit had a representative on a review committee later in the process.
February 17th, 2011Committee meeting
Gregory Percy
Transport committee Today Transport Canada goes through the class one railways on certain ways that we run our businesses. For other pieces, we go directly to Transport Canada without going through the railways. We would say that this works today.
February 17th, 2011Committee meeting
Gregory Percy
Transport committee I would say that it's a yes.
February 17th, 2011Committee meeting
Gregory Percy
Transport committee It is 54%.
February 17th, 2011Committee meeting
Gregory Percy
Transport committee Fences, level crossings, that kind of thing, graffiti, garbage, things like that. Those are important neighbourhood issues, as I would call them.
February 17th, 2011Committee meeting
Gregory Percy