Transport committee  If I may. The key thing is, if we want to put in a regime, who's going to fund it? Is it the public, or the private sector, and who is best placed to do that? The free market insurance can't cover that kind of incident, we know that. Spreading the burden so that everybody chips

Transport committee  We've said this in our documents and our presentation. Obviously, that is subject to a lot of modelling, to see if what we think is a good idea can actually work on the ground. It's not only the shipper and the carrier, it's also the end industrial user. You can include in there

Transport committee  Yes, the 800 municipalities are directly affected by railway traffic. They're the only ones under PD 32 that have a right to receive the information. You have to have a railway to be able to access that data.

Transport committee  It's a difficult call, because we don't actually have a number of how many municipalities are crossed by a railway. We know from CN, which is a really good indicator because they cover pretty much the country, they have about 1,100 municipalities that they cross. About 800 munici

Transport committee  Again, that's part of the continuum. It's part of the catastrophic fund.

Transport committee  Exactly.

Transport committee  In a nutshell, what it boils down to is the test of adequacy. Adequate for what? As we embarked on this, we came to the realization that the system that is in place and managed by CTA could be improved on a few fronts, but it is adequate for day-to-day operations. There is noth

Transport committee  Very quickly, again, this was something that came out of the marine transportation improvement recommendations, a report that came out not too long again, and that is immediate cash for first responders to be able to do their work. For a small municipality like Lac-Mégantic, the

Transport committee  That is correct. We understand there are differences in the way these modes of transportation are structured globally. There is no worldwide organization to govern this, so it is a rough comparison. But the notion is a catastrophic fund that was set up for those big emergencies i

Transport committee  On the insurance issue, the only dialogue that has taken place is the same that occurred, in fact, with CTA, which was an initial fact-finding meeting so that we understood what each part of the government did and where they were going. Then we simply filed submissions as part of

Transport committee  I would like to add that Transport Canada will also issue orders when it conducts inspections, but most operational decisions, whether they have to do with a speed limit or the closure of a stretch of a rail line because of work being done, are made by the railways. These compani