Charlie Angus on Railway Continuation Act, 2007

In the House of Commons on April 17th, 2007. See this statement in context.

Railway Continuation Act, 2007Government Orders

April 17th, 2007 / 8:30 p.m.

NDP

Charlie Angus NDP Timmins—James Bay, ON

I will be very quick, Mr. Speaker. We are talking about CEOs making $56 million a year. That is $9,000 an hour. For the folks back home, that is $216,000 a day. If we have a CN derailment every three days, that is $648,000 for a derailment.

We have been talking about safety and the fact that the government refuses to—

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