Transport committee  No, and our suggestion is that you don't need them because they already meet the U.S. requirements.

Transport committee  No. I'll tell you what operations mean. You didn't ask me the question. I'm the railway expert. Operational requirements does not refer to finances. Operational requirements means what a railway needs to do to conduct its operations. A railway must hook cars onto a locomotive.

Transport committee  I would think they would have a very difficult time if the agency could demonstrate that in fact there are other technologies and that they could change the way they're operating. Let them make their case, but the agency has that same opportunity to argue that case, so it's somet

Transport committee  Can I answer that, Mr. McGuinty? Your amendment is seeking to amend proposed section 95.1. Proposed section 95.1 is the obligation on the railway. The question you just asked pertains to proposed section 95.3. In proposed section 95.3, we specifically say that: the Agency may

Transport committee  Vibrations and noise to us are hand in hand. They're related to the activity. Fumes and emissions are covered by other pieces of law. That's why we believe it shouldn't be part of this bill.

Transport committee  In fact, the study I refer to is the study that was announced as part of the Pacific gateway initiative. You will probably have noticed that in the announcement by the current government--the previous government had set $30 million aside for grade separations--the amount has been

Transport committee  You have raised numerous issues, and I'll try to address them. I think Monsieur Langlois' response to Monsieur Laframboise about the word “unreasonable” is true. It is true that in a previous version of the bill we had the minimal noise possible. When the drafters went back thr

Transport committee  Yes, but as I was saying to Mr. Hubbard, the Railway Safety Act prevails with respect to fumes released into the environment. Recently, the department came to an agreement with the rail company. All locomotives are subject to the U.S. regulations because that is where they are b

Transport committee  We have been speaking with the agency, and when they appeared before the committee recently they had already started to look at the guidelines. What we have asked them to do--and they are participating because we're also participating--is, to the extent possible, try to look at w

Transport committee  Okay. Thank you very much. I'll start by answering Mr. Hubbard's question. Along with a couple of other federal departments, Environment Canada in particular, the department regulates the emissions of locomotives. Currently we have a memorandum of understanding with the railway

Transport committee  Let me give you a little bit of context in terms of how these provisions came along and what is their intent. The real objective we are trying to achieve here is a balance between the complaints and the concerns we have heard from communities and citizens, as well as the operatio

Transport committee  Right.

Transport committee  They actually, in fact, cease operations, and they go to the agency and say they're going to stop operating for whatever number of months and they're going to cancel their insurance, because they don't want to be paying it if they're not operating, and so we terminate the service

Transport committee  Exactly.

Transport committee  As the table that's going around will demonstrate, the department contacted a couple of municipal entities to ask them whether they had issues and needed to be advised of this. I think the answer we received was that they value the seasonal services, but they are what they are--s