I'm not going to portray this as a BTOA position, but I will tell you that it is my personal opinion that this is, indeed, necessary legislation to clarify orders of federal interest and importance. It could conceivably encourage greater communication and cooperation, but I'd be remiss if I didn't tell you that this already exists between the operators and Transport Canada. I think that the agency has been very responsive to the crossing operators, and that goes back to before the days of September of 2001. But the cooperation has grown even closer and more frequent in the last five years.
On May 16th, 2006. See this statement in context.