Thank you, Madam Chair.
I found Mr. Hardie's presentation particularly eloquent. He spoke about an environment of trust, and that's precisely what is lacking.
All the situations in which voice and video recorders cannot be used are being listed, but we are told that we are going to define them later in the regulations in order to specify them. We are against that. In any case, we aren't necessarily working on safety. If we really wanted to work on safety, it would have been good for Bill C-49 to propose measures against train operator fatigue. We had to face the same problem in aviation safety.
In our view, voice and video recorders are tools that allow the TSB to measure, after the fact, that is, after the accident, unfortunately, what was lacking or not. If we really want to talk about safety, we must review all the measures that affect events before an accident happens. Voice and video recorders do nothing to prevent accidents
Personally, I wouldn't want a voice and video camera installed in my office to monitor my daily work. I guess the Prime Minister and Mr. Hardie wouldn't like that either. Yet that is what we are offering to train drivers. We tell them that whenever they enter their office, meaning their locomotive, their actions will be recorded on a voice and video tape.