Transport committee  This list was published in the media today, I believe?

Transport committee  Is that the risk assessments for the crossings?

Transport committee  For dangerous goods, those risk assessments we've made available to Transport Canada. We're more than willing to sit down with any community and go through the risk assessment. We are concerned, however, about making that publicly available. This is security-sensitive. This is co

Transport committee  I wouldn't say turned down. They haven't been acted upon.

Transport committee  I'll deal generally with crossings and how crossings are managed in Canada. As you've heard, there's a new regulation that came into place last year on grade crossings. We participated in the making of that regulation, and I'll cut to the chase here. We are compliant with the reg

Transport committee  It's not quite like that. Fixed or brought up to the new standard? Absolutely, we're working with the municipalities to do that. Removed is an entirely different discussion, and it's nearly impossible for us to do that.

Transport committee  We would like to. We believe that's the right approach, but we have no ability to do that. The CTA has the ability to grant access by opening crossings. They review crossing opening proposals. Transport Canada looks at the safety of the individual crossings, but nobody is looking

Transport committee  Yes.

Transport committee  When we were going through the grade crossing regulation review, our position was that it needed to be more than what we ended up with.

Transport committee  Yes, and generally if it's freight cars you're talking about, it's market dictated.

Transport committee  They're long-term assets if you're talking about the rolling stock, the locomotives and the cars.

Transport committee  Yes, that is ours. A lot of the rolling stock, like the cars in particular, we may not own, but there's a regulatory regime on how we inspect and maintain them.

Transport committee  Thank you, Madam Chair, and good afternoon. We would like to congratulate you all for your election victories last fall. We thank you for the opportunity to appear today to discuss the important issue of rail safety. As one of Canada's two class 1 railways, we operate a 22,000 k

Transport committee  To answer that specific question, sir, we have purchased additional equipment and we have it strategically located in areas of the network where we can very quickly mobilize it. We've also done training and we've helped emergency responders to make sure that they're schooled and

Transport committee  It's similar. We've worked closely with the local responders, the fire chiefs, and we're helping to educate them. We're also making sure that they're schooled on the equipment that we have available and that they know where it is. Again, we work very closely with them.