Thank you for your question.
As far as the City of Boucherville is concerned, only the clerk is made aware of the products moving on the railroad tracks, which run through a very highly populated urban environment. She receives this information on a quarterly basis, three months after the materials have passed by on our tracks. It makes no sense.
We may have first responder systems, but we can't plan our first response when we learn three months later what has just gone by on our tracks.
The clerk has signed a confidentiality agreement. However, once a year CN sends us a report that can be disclosed to several people about what happened in the previous year. This morning, she sent me what she received in March about what passed by on the Boucherville tracks in 2020, and 89% of the cars contained hazardous materials. That's pretty disturbing.