We would see the changes necessary that could be done administratively first, before you even went through legislation. There are many things that can be done right now, such as increasing the penalties for operators and incidents of violations. Those can be done without legislation.
The unannounced inspections versus audits can be done without legislation. The alternate routing for shipping by rail that the mayor talked about, with municipalities needing alternate routes for rail traffic to go through, could be done without legislation.
Quite honestly, there needs to be a partnership, and the partnership needs to be with the railway operators and the levels of government. The reason it hasn't moved is that the funding isn't there to make that happen.
Finally, the last piece I'd say around the changes that can be made without legislation is that we need more specialists in terms of the inspections we do in this country. Transport Canada has moved into multimodal inspections, and that's particularly true in the transportation of dangerous goods. TDG inspectors are now expected to inspect all different modes, so they do rail one day and they may do civil aviation another day. What happens is that the expertise gets watered down, and even though these people are very good at their jobs, we need to focus back in on getting experts and specialists to be able to deal with some of the issues that are there already.
There are many things that can be done inside the existing practices that are happening right now. Quite honestly, we've been making the same calls for 20 years, and very little has happened. The changes on the alternate routes have been going on since communities were built and railways were going to go through the communities.
Changes need to be made at the funding and administrative levels, and they can easily be made to improve rail safety in this country.