Thank you, Madam Chair.
In the next few minutes, you will see a number of amendments proposed by the New Democratic Party. They are all similar, because the discourse must be consistent.
In all the presentations, we were told that tapes of these voice and video recorders would not be used in any particular situation. The only thing on which all witnesses agreed was that these recordings should only be used by members of the Transportation Safety Board of Canada, or TSB. The bill should not contain any clauses that give the railways the power to do anything else because of criteria that are not quite clear. That's what we are trying to correct or eliminate.
Amendment NDP-8 proposes that Bill C-49, in clause 61, be amended by replacing lines 13 to 16 on page 42 with the following:
(2) No company referred to in subsection (1) shall use the information that it records, collects or preserves under that subsection. Instead of explaining how the company should not do it in unfortunate situations, let's say from the start that it cannot do it.