Except that the incompetent maintenance continued. This means that what action you took was not enough to deter such a huge company. Three, four or five court cases are nothing for a multinational. You either did not have enough staff, enough time, or something else was missing.
I'm all for jailing the president, but given how much senior officials are paid, several of them will end up in jail if we don't take care of them first. We can always amend the law to make all senior officers liable, but we would also have to ensure that, throughout the entire network... In 2007, some employees told us that they did not even know of the existence of the safety management system. Perhaps the company did not do its job, but perhaps Transport Canada also did not do enough to ensure that all railway employees understood that the company had obligations. I don't know, but surely there are questions we must ask ourselves about this entire situation.