Transport committee  I think to be philosophical, the best regulation is the responsibility of the chief executive to protect the assets the shareholders have paid for. When you look at safety cultures, you go to a potash mine in Saskatchewan and you'll see a huge billboard on the outside of the pota

Transport committee  CFI has not done an assessment of Transport Canada so I'll have to get back to you on that. Yes, our products do meet the classification.

Transport committee  No, we don't ship unit trains of ammonia. We actually did a study on this and the maximum number of railcars of ammonia that we would typically have in a train is 36. The average number is 12 cars. The average distance is 525 miles. As a point of interest, less than 1.1% of our

Transport committee  I think companies need to be able to develop their own safety management systems and their own way of fitting safety within their business models. When you have a blanket safety requirement that is national and broad, it tends to be a blunt instrument as opposed to when companies

Transport committee  Yes.

Transport committee  We're still trying to get a hard number on the number of DOT-111s our industry has. We're roughly estimating it at about 10,000 cars. Many of those cars are not in TDG service. They haul non-TDG goods, and I think that's an important distinction. Our member companies do use DOT-

Transport committee  I think, as Fiona indicated earlier, there are broad verification systems for responsible care where other industry programs—

Transport committee  Madame Morin, those are good questions. First, I think we want to be very cautious about saying that costs are passed on to customers. The costs have to be absorbed within the company's economic structure, and if they can't be globally competitive after absorbing those costs, t

Transport committee  In terms of the labelling of transport of dangerous goods, we have two products that are classified as TDG, anhydrous ammonia and ammonium nitrate. We worked with Transport Canada in the definition and the classifications, such as exactly what the MSDS requires, whether it's this

Transport committee  I did. I'm not familiar with the training that the railways provide to the Teamsters union. CN and CP can answer that. We have a first responder training program that we've made available to every fire department in Canada where our products move. We go to the Canadian Associ

Transport committee  We don't directly train railway workers. The railways train their employees. We train first responders.

Transport committee  We don't keep track. I'd have to ask the fire chiefs how many of their employees they've trained.

Transport committee  I don't have any advice on what you need to do with regard to the petroleum and oil industry. If you look at what we did in Mississauga, it was: better tank cars, better first responder training, strong mutual aid agreements between companies to enhance emergency response, work

Transport committee  I would be hesitant to say that any further increases are going to be passed on to our customers, the farmers in Canada, but the reality is that if our member companies' costs are increased, somehow that's going to have an impact on our marketplace and our customers as well, yes.

Transport committee  Some of that is regulatory requirements, such as CEPA section 200 compliance with ERAPs, but a lot of it is voluntary industry initiatives.