We sit on committees that look at multi-modal means of transportation. Holistically, we are looking at a Clean Air Act, and the issue always becomes whether trains should be used more to move things. Is it more efficient? Is it going to be cleaner air?
From the Teamsters' perspective, the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference, freight and tank haul division...if Teamsters do it, then I guess we'd say we're happy. But from a holistic approach, if we end up with a bill that says you can't make noise so you can't use trains....
There's another committee I'm appearing before that has asked me from the Teamsters Canada perspective and intermodal how we do this to use clean air. The answer again from our perspective is that you're legislators; you pass bills to meet various needs, and you do it quite well most of the time.
Looking at it again holistically, we have one part of the department passing regulations that perhaps will make things more noisy, we have another part doing something else, and we have this one here. The devil is in the details. When we go to the regulations and find out exactly what we're trying to do, we will probably have a much clearer content.
As to the actual idea, none of our leadership has expressed a concern with it.