We believe that not only can people from the transport departments of Ontario, Quebec and across Canada come together, but so can those from all public safety ministries in the provinces and Canada, because public safety is the primary concern.
It is not only partners from the tax field who should be included in the national committee. Partners in public safety are also needed, as well as partners in the environmental sector. You can’t even imagine how many litres of diesel spilled along the roads in Canada have not been recovered following accidents involving a heavy vehicle driven by a Driver Inc. driver. This figure is exponential.
As mentioned earlier, when representatives from the Quebec or Canadian environment department intervene at a collision scene involving a heavy vehicle and find that the vehicle belongs to a company that subscribes to the Driver Inc. model, I believe they take the easier route. Yes, they warn the truck driver at the scene and read him his rights, for example, they tell him that he must recover the contaminants and call a decontamination company, but that’s it. A few days or a few weeks later, you can go to the scene and notice that there are small lakes of contaminants. It’s like this everywhere in Canada right now, and it’s very unfortunate.