Transport committee  We had a total of 53 inspectors on CN for a month. We looked at over 3,000 boxcars, 230 locomotives, over 900 crossings, 156 warning systems, and 2,000 miles of track. We made 386 observations for operating practices. There were several deficiencies, at different levels, that wer

Transport committee  New Brunswick East Coast is a provincially regulated railway, not a federally regulated one. We do some enforcement on them, but through a memorandum of understanding.

Transport committee  VIA Rail has an obligation to make sure the lines they're running on are safe. That's part of their mandate. They're not going to get into a contractual agreement if it's not safe.

Transport committee  Which line goes from Halifax to Montreal?

Transport committee  Yes, but I don't know of any line other than CN that goes from Montreal to Halifax. I know which line goes there, but I don't know which one you're referring to.

Transport committee  Maybe they own a portion of it, but not across the province.

Transport committee  I could look into it to give you an exact answer. But if it goes across several provinces, its automatically a federal railway. If it's provincial, it's because it's confined to one province. The line that links Montreal to Halifax is owned by CN.

Transport committee  I doubt it.

Transport committee  Yes, we call it Chemin du Golfe et de La Matapédia. That's a provincial railway under the Province of Quebec.

Transport committee  I don't think it does.

Transport committee  Yes.

Transport committee  It's 36 in total right now.

Transport committee  Could you just repeat that?

Transport committee  Other than the measure we took by putting special emphasis on track and on some of the equipment, no, we're just more out there than we were before.

Transport committee  Train speed is determined by the track safety rules, and actually if they meet the parameters we have in the track safety rules, that's how we allow speed. When we inspect the track, there are six different categories. If the condition of the track meets, let's say, a class one t