Transport committee  We've taken this very seriously. We welcome any inspections that are being made on top of the audits made by Transport Canada. There is one actually going on right now, and as we mentioned earlier, we believe that inspection audit verification and the involvement of all employees

Transport committee  I feel that I work as though I would be inspected every day, every week.

Transport committee  I know, but the way we work at VIA Rail is that we don't wait for inspections. We work as though we were to be inspected without any notice every week, every month.

Transport committee  We are currently examining the issue. Our locomotives were renovated thanks to a recent program. We obviously believe that they are very safe. We are looking at how we can make sure the locomotives comply with the recommendations, at the feasibility of the procedure, and when we

Transport committee  Indeed, all fatigue-related issues are important, not only as regards to the number of hours spent on board the locomotive, but also the working environment for these employees. We work with the TCRC policy committees. We have regular meetings to examine these issues. Unlike ot

Transport committee  Our success could be our greatest weakness and our greatest enemy. If we start to become complacent because we were successful in recent years and because we are good at what we do, we might become our own worst enemy.

Transport committee  I am very pleased to have the opportunity to respond. Human error is the main cause of accidents, but this does not mean that the employee is the direct reason an accident happens. As managers, we are responsible for providing employees with training, good equipment and we must

Transport committee  Training, the ability of people to react to sometimes unclear information, new information which arrives along the way, signage which might be misinterpreted or mistransmitted to a locomotive, the ability to react to a sudden event on a moving train; these are all factors which m

Transport committee  I will answer your question with pleasure and I will give you a very current example. We have 23 local health and safety committees all over the country. Each of these committees is comprised in equal parts of unionized members and management members. These committees meet each

Transport committee  That's a good question. Whether there should be a regulation or not, VIA Rail decided two years ago to work on the implementation of technologies that will achieve a good proportion of what a PTC system could bring at a much lower cost. We're in that route right now. We expect th

Transport committee  Our position on the use of inward-facing cameras and voice recordings in the industry so far has been that they should be used within the SMS, not only for investigations conducted by TSB. We believe it's a useful tool to better understand what's going on, on a day-to-day basis.

Transport committee  As I mentioned earlier, we've invested in the last couple of years more than $80 million to improve safety on our own infrastructure. Thanks to the economic action plan, a portion of that money has been invested in making sure that all our public crossings on our own infrastructu

Transport committee  Sorry, I didn't get the question.

Transport committee  At VIA Rail, we do not need a third party to bring about a culture of safety. I believe that our measures which assess whether our safety procedures are in place, are, at the very least, just as rigorous as those which could be implemented by a third party. As you mentioned, you

Transport committee  Thank you, Jean. There have been some incidents, such as the one which happened last summer in the Lac-Mégantic region, which lead us to rethink the way we do things. These incidents also help us to bring down our tolerance to risk, which is sometimes too high. For several year