The way the Railway Safety Act is structured, it encourages the rail safety directorate and the inspectors they have across the country to carry out fairly rigorous inspections. In situations where the rail safety directorate sees there are chronic violations, then clearly there should be some penalty provision and the act provides for that. I think it provides for penalties of up to $250,000 per incident. Certainly, I would see that where there are chronic violations, continuing violations, there clearly needs to be some penalty and it does need to be applied and should be applied rigorously.
On April 29th, 2014. See this statement in context.