Transport committee  If I could just make one comment....

Transport committee  As I said, if we cleaned up the 5% to 10% we'd make great strides. It doesn't mean that's necessarily the level of non-compliance. In our submission to you and the things we talked about today, the ELDs and the electronic stability control, we put those forward because those are

Transport committee  You're right; I didn't use the word lax, and I won't use the word lax. I think there's always room for improvement.

Transport committee  Or the province, again.

Transport committee  No, because again, Transport Canada has delegated the administration of those regulations to the provinces; so Transport Canada doesn't actually do that enforcement. It's the provinces. With respect to the trucking companies, with respect to the shippers, that is Transport Canad

Transport committee  That is an inspection the federal government has jurisdiction over under the TDG regulations. There is also a committee that's administered by the Canadian Standards Association. Specifically with respect to tank cars, it's the B620 committee which comprises manufacturers, regu

Transport committee  I'll ask our VP of safety, “Mr. ELD”, Geoff Wood to take you through “ELD-101”.

Transport committee  Currently two of the major truck OEMs have it as part of their standard new vehicle package. There are five or six others that don't make it part of their standard vehicle package, but we think they should.

Transport committee  It's difficult to retrofit, but it's not expensive. It's about $1,000 or $1,100 a unit. When you consider a tractor-trailer combined in the dangerous goods field, it can be several hundreds of thousands of dollars. As I said, it's very cheap insurance. What it does is to electr

Transport committee  Yes.

Transport committee  You're not obligated to carry anything.

Transport committee  Yes, it's through the court, but the laws are pretty clear in terms of determining responsibility. A lot of these things don't get to court. The carrier gets a bill and they'll.... Again, not every one of these things is challenged, because if you're at fault, you're at fault.

Transport committee  The legal requirement, the regulatory requirement, in most provinces is, I think, $1 million or $2 million for dangerous goods, but the vast majority of people in that business carry significantly more than that. Two million dollars, particularly in the United States where things

Transport committee  It depends at what point.... They would be inspected roadside by Ministry of Transportation enforcement officials. In many provinces, policing agencies are also involved, or it can be done, in the case of an incident, by the environmental people or whoever the first responders ar

Transport committee  When you fill your gas tank sometimes, do you ever see a little bit of gasoline dripping out at the end? That's what we're talking about.