That program was aired on CTV and said about the escalating accident rate:
Railway insiders say CN is not the only one to blame, and that government must bear some responsibility for the spike in accidents. Changes to railway legislation have taken power away from government--yielding more authority to railway companies to develop their own safety schemes.
Then the report quotes transportation consultant Greg Gormick as saying “This is about failed transportation policy”.
On what has happened within the railway, certainly in British Columbia we've felt very keenly the increase in accidents—the deaths of railway employees, and the destruction of habitat. Would you say that the safety management system within the railways has been a failed transportation policy because of the results? On the Cheakamus River half a million fish died. Habitat was destroyed in Wabamun Lake. Deaths took place in the Fraser Canyon.