Gentlemen, last week on Thursday, I and other members asked David Bradley, the president of the Canadian Trucking Alliance, about liability and some practical problems that apply to the trucking safety area. I'm going to read back two quotes from David Bradley to get your reactions to them, because I think they touch each of your mandates. Here's the first thing he said:
The concern that we have is that some shippers will try to protect themselves through freight contracts by saying that even where it's perhaps not the trucking company who is at fault, let's say there was improper documentation, improper loading, where the shipper was responsible, that sort of thing, that they try to put a sign up saying, “We're not liable even if we were negligent”.
He made a second similar comment:
...we need legislation [in Canada] which says that shippers cannot introduce freight contracts that hold themselves harmless where they are negligent. That's what we need.
Is that what we need?