Transport committee  I can add that we have memorandums of understanding with those organizations that clarify the coordination of activities and how we interact in terms of the actual site, the evidence, and the interviewing of witnesses. All those things are predefined in those memorandums.

Government Operations committee  I'll just add that in each one of our individual investigations, we ensure that we're very thorough in collecting data, analyzing it, and being fact-based in our reporting and findings. That is essential to our credibility and the work that we do. Our challenge is more at the bi

Government Operations committee  We do offer training for investigators, but the people who join the agency are experts in their field. They might for instance have spent 25 years of their career in aviation and then become experts in that field. When we hire them, we spend about two years training them as inves

Government Operations committee  We are concerned about it, but, as I said, we are working on succession planning. We conduct recruitment campaigns to create pools of pre-qualified candidates. We can then use the pools to quickly replace departing employees. We also have a knowledge transfer program that allows

Government Operations committee  First of all, our mandate is to investigate incidents. Other agencies are responsible for the oversight of the pipeline network and other modes of transportation. In the case of the pipeline network, the National Energy Board is responsible for oversight and protection. Our con

Government Operations committee  As I said, over the course of the year, we share the resources among our various programs depending on the number of investigations required. If fewer investigations are conducted in aviation, more resources will be allocated to the pipelines or rail sectors. We redistribute the

Government Operations committee  We have two groups. Some people are specialists in their field, be it aviation, rail, marine or pipeline transportation. We also have a group of engineers and experts on human factors. These people are assigned where they are needed to provide the appropriate technical and scient

Government Operations committee  A large part of our reductions have been done on the administrative side. We've reduced eight administrative positions, two management positions, and three investigator positions. We've shifted to electronic communications and distribution instead of printed material. We've reduc

Government Operations committee  If we look historically, we've always had a number of vacant investigator positions just because of ongoing attrition. The positions we eliminated were positions that had been vacant for a few years. So there has been no net impact in terms of the delivery of the mandate.

Government Operations committee  The budgets still include those salary dollars. Those salary dollars were lapsed at year-end, because the positions were vacant. When the time came for the cuts, we basically eliminated those positions and reduced the budgets.

Government Operations committee  Currently we have no pipeline investigations ongoing. Last year we completed two pipeline investigations. The way we proceed for pipelines is that because there are very few occurrences that we investigate, we allocate a notional amount that covers the salaries of two investiga

Industry committee  From the TSB perspective, we are not responsible to look into the design and construction of new pipelines. The National Energy Board would have to approve the design and construction of any new pipelines. That would include the specifications that apply for mountainous terrain a

Transport committee  Only to the transportation of dangerous goods; it doesn't apply to all trains.

Transport committee  The standards for rail are just as stringent as in aviation or marine or pipeline. There are 10 criteria In our regulations, and if any one of those 10 criteria applies, then there's an obligation to report the incident, the accident, whatever the case might be. Most of the time

Government Operations committee  In terms of the supplementary estimates (B), that's where the difference is included between the two numbers that you've referred to, the $26 million and the $28 million. In the supplementary estimates (B), we are receiving some funds that are being transferred from Treasury Boar