Transport committee  FCM has developed proximity guidelines with the railway associations. In our role at a federal level, we don't do land use planning, it's a provincial thing, but we do have guidelines adopted by the City of Montreal, by the City of Moncton. They have setbacks recommended in new d

Transport committee  Sure. I think this responds directly to questions that were raised after Mégantic: how did MMA end up with $25 million in coverage; what was the process to get there; and what does the adequacy test mean? There are sort of two options for the CTA: to establish a minimum that is

Transport committee  As my colleagues reminded me, there wasn't public trust in the system, right? To have that, it's reasonable to say that the commercial financial information would be kept confidential, but it seems reasonable that knowing what the insurance level is would be public. Again, this i

Transport committee  That's right.

Transport committee  Our position remains that PD 32 meets the planning need. We have a separate issue when an emergency happens. I know CAFC went through this. Firefighters call CANUTEC. CANUTEC has been provided with the “consist” and MSDS from the railway, and that does need to happen in real ti

Transport committee  We feel it meets the planning need that we identified when we made the request for this order. That being said, this is a three-year temporary order. We'll see how it rolls out and if there are systemic issues there that we need to address, obviously we'll lobby for them, but w

Transport committee  Obviously, all these issues have to happen in concert, and we've been asking for more prescriptive regulations across the industry. Yes, inspection is important, but you also have to start with the regulatory regime. We're not experts in SMS. I read all the transcripts from this

Transport committee  Yes.

Transport committee  From our perspective, obviously a robust audit function is critical. I'm sure anybody in the transportation regime would agree with that. The minister has said that the statistics that came out of the AG report will be improved, and we would expect that to be the case.

Transport committee  Absolutely. Just to be clear for members of the committee, we asked for the content of protective direction 32. This was our request, developed in conjunction with the fire chiefs, and we're pleased that the government has implemented it. There is one piece that you haven't men

Transport committee  The CTA review, all the submissions—

Transport committee  The way we've engaged with the insurance issue is both through the CTA review and Transport Canada also had its own consultations. We have met bilaterally with Transport and provided comments and the next step, I suppose, will be for Transport to decide how to proceed with their

Transport committee  From our perspective, I'm not sure it's a question of presupposition. There are separate issues here. When we identified our rail safety priority areas last summer, we talked about: if you have an emergency, how do you deal with it? If you have an emergency, how do you pay for it

Transport committee  Just to add to Madame Quinlan's comments, there is a separate issue about being notified about serious safety deficiencies on the railways. That is a conversation we're having with Transport Canada, about what the appropriate process is for doing that, so we know what measures to

Transport committee  A good example of the starting point is that after the tragedy in Lac-Mégantic some of the neighbouring communities had asked for information about the quality of the network in the area and they were told to file an ATIP request. Obviously we as a sector feel there should be a s