Uncontrolled movements arise from three situations. Since time is short, I won't describe each one in detail. We observed 78 cases in 2019, but concluded that they were going down in 2020 and 2021. We do not know if this reduction was attributable to measures taken by stakeholders to improve safety or to reduced rail activity during the pandemic. That is an issue we want to analyze.
We made two recommendations, one of which was made following the accident in Lac-Mégantic and the other more recently. In the latter, we recommended that Transport Canada work closely with the rail industry and union representatives to determine the causes of uncontrolled movements. The goal is to find solutions to reduce the frequency of these events and the risks they represent.
