Xavier Barsalou-Duval at the Transport, Infrastructure and Communities Committee

On October 25th, 2023. See this statement in context.

October 25th, 2023 / 9:10 p.m.

Bloc

Xavier Barsalou-Duval Bloc Pierre-Boucher—Les Patriotes—Verchères, QC

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

My comments are for Mr. Kennedy.

I was quite surprised to hear earlier that there are safety exemptions. Such exemptions that are sometimes granted to rail companies are not public. So they are secret and no one is aware of them. That concerns me.

So you are proposing that those exemptions would automatically be made public. In your opinion, what impact would that have on accountability, first of all, but also on the use of those exemptions? Do you think they would be used more sparingly or that there would be reluctance to abuse them?

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