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Transport committee  The inspections of transloading facilities...?

March 21st, 2016Committee meeting

Laureen Kinney

Transport committee  There are already requirements for train securement. In the emergency directive and the then-following rule that came into place in terms of train securement, there were requirements for how trains needed to be left secure so that they were protected from trespassing and other risks as well as runaway trains and other types of dangers.

March 21st, 2016Committee meeting

Laureen Kinney

March 21st, 2016Committee meeting

Laureen Kinney

Transport committee  Do we have one or two hours to properly explain all the changes?

March 21st, 2016Committee meeting

Laureen Kinney

Transport committee  Transport Canada has done a lot of work related to the tragic events that were just mentioned. It is almost impossible to describe all the changes we have made. Some of the changes have to do with the rules, processes, inspection methods, as well as rail safety, dangerous goods and new requirements or standards for cars.

March 21st, 2016Committee meeting

Laureen Kinney

Transport committee  That's nearly impossible to do. After experiencing such an event, we wanted to focus on the most important issues, as well as the recommendations made by the Transportation Safety Board of Canada. As I was saying earlier, the work will continue.

March 21st, 2016Committee meeting

Laureen Kinney

Transport committee  There are a significant number of issues that are being looked at in terms of the study that's going on right now. Some of those issues address the technical issues; what are the standards? If you're going to mandate a particular type of equipment, what kind of equipment? What kind of reliability?

March 21st, 2016Committee meeting

Laureen Kinney

Transport committee  In an overview, the specific requirements for risk assessments for key routes and trains, which carry certain numbers of dangerous goods, etc., are very detailed and specific in terms of the factors that need to be considered. Those include things like the route, the grade of the slope, and the types of ground area, whether or not, for example, the rail route passes over a body of water, a fragile environmental area, and/or perhaps the source of water for a community.

March 21st, 2016Committee meeting

Laureen Kinney

Transport committee  I would frame it as the initial responsibility of the operators who know their own particular operation, who know the loads that they carry, where their routing may be, the type of terrain, and what kinds of local risks there are along that terrain. Then they get the feedback from municipalities along that route, for example, and the first responsibility is for the company to look at those questions and to look at the appropriate risk management approach.

March 21st, 2016Committee meeting

Laureen Kinney

Transport committee  If a railway is operating in Canada, then it is under Transport Canada's jurisdiction and it is required to follow all of the rules, requirements, and regulations. They would be required to do all of these risk assessments. They would be applying those to their Canadian operations.

March 21st, 2016Committee meeting

Laureen Kinney

Transport committee  The task force had a certain mandate and a certain period of operation. It has now had its last meeting. We expect to have something in the order of 40 recommendations provided by the task force. About a third of those recommendations have been implemented, and others are now being analyzed.

March 21st, 2016Committee meeting

Laureen Kinney

Transport committee  Madam Chair, I'll give a general comment, if I may. I would suggest that different types of operating companies or various types of organizations have different challenges. A very large organization may be large, complex, and difficult to necessarily move quickly, and smaller operations have their own complexities, it's true.

March 21st, 2016Committee meeting

Laureen Kinney

Transport committee  Maybe I'll just start, Madam Chair, then ask Ms. Diogo if she has anything to add in more detail. Fundamentally this is an issue that is always of concern. It's again one of the key elements that you need to think about in the safety of any transportation system. Typically you will have evolutions of the thinking.

March 21st, 2016Committee meeting

Laureen Kinney

Transport committee  Madam Chair, if I may, I think the design of the regime for railway safety has been reviewed, as have the two particular examples of 2013 and 2015 when Railway Safety Act amendments were proposed and made. The regime was not addressed in terms of the breakdown of how rules operate in conjunction with regulations and standards, except in a few areas of how enforcement and compliance could be improved.

March 21st, 2016Committee meeting

Laureen Kinney

Transport committee  Madam Chair, I'm not sure how far I can speculate on those kinds of broad questions. I can tell the committee the process of engaging Canadian government agencies, including Transport Canada, on the regulatory side in various initiatives—where we look at reducing red tape and regulatory coordination, and co-operation with the United States for example—is a process that bring us closely into the discussion of safety priorities, and what are the safety priorities.

March 21st, 2016Committee meeting

Laureen Kinney