Transport committee  Good morning, Mr. Chair and members of the committee. I'd like to thank you for this opportunity of allowing me to present before you. My name is Jim Vena—it's actually Vincenzo Vena—from Jasper, Alberta. I'm the executive vice-president and chief operating officer with CN Rail

Transport committee  If I could answer, you had a question earlier about the transparency and the products that we move through the municipalities. I think there has been a lot of misunderstanding about this whole issue. One is, on every train there is a conductor, and part of his job is to make su

Transport committee  Our gross revenue was just north of $10 billion.

Transport committee  Sure, I’ll start off and Keith can jump in. It's not my job to worry that the regulator is given enough money to regulate.

Transport committee  No. My job is to run a safe railroad. My job is to live up to the regulations that are in place, use the regulations as a basis to start with, build on them, and make sure that we run the safest railway possible. You heard CP say that they have the best accident ratio in the indu

Transport committee  I apologize, and maybe my hearing is going, but I missed the question. Could you repeat it, please?

Transport committee  Our feedback is because it doesn't change every day. The emergency responders want to know what type, the volume, and how much so that they can respond properly, and that's the information we give them. It just does not change what you would do by knowing that second or that minu

Transport committee  No.

Transport committee  Why don't I start with that. Let me back up—

Transport committee  I'll be quick. If you're telling me that I was too long on the last answer, I apologize. When somebody has been railroading as long as I have, you've seen all sorts of things. You can go back to February 8, 1986 when there was a tragic accident in Alberta where a passenger train

Transport committee  If it's something new, then absolutely. We sit down and tell them that we have a new product on line, and if there's a different handling for the product, then we need to let the communities know, and we'll let them know.

Transport committee  There's a long list of items that we have on objectives and safety. It's communication with our employees, communication with the communities that we operate through, making sure that we're advocates putting our position forward, showing leadership in tank cars, removal of the DO

Transport committee  We own 40 of them, and the 40 are gone. We lease another 118 and we have a program to get rid of them over the next three years as we're able to put them in the mix to get them built. As for the safety program, the numbers are already open to anybody who wants to see them. The T

Transport committee  As long as we don't get surprised with the product, absolutely. That's why I can't sit here and say I'm not going to move a new product that has slightly different configuration. But if we know about it, absolutely, we want to be able to tell the people.

Transport committee  There's community engagement, Saint Mary's on safety culture, and in fact, if people want—