Transport committee  I'm not completely familiar with the review, but I know this is a good step in the right direction. The more we can investigate and maybe add regulations to the railway or recommendations that go in that direction, the more beneficial it is.

Transport committee  I actually applaud this committee, because we've been conveniently tucked away in the middle of nowhere for years and we haven't had a lot of press. Nobody was really concerned with the railway unless you had a derailment in Cobourg that was in somebody's backyard. You don't see

Transport committee  I'm not familiar with this.

Transport committee  Sure.

Transport committee  In the general operating instructions?

Transport committee  I do have it. This is a book. This is basically the request to slow trains down. I take a lot from the GOI. The emphasis is on safety. The employee is responsible. The supervisor is responsible. The same language is in the Canada Labour Code. You'll see that in the GOI. Actuall

Transport committee  I can't say that allowing CN to govern their own safety has worked. For example, the contractors are allowing the company to wash their hands of the liability. They may manage us, as unionized employees, but not the contractors. We had an incident in which one of our employees wa

Transport committee  They don't necessarily say they discipline for violating...well, I guess what it means is that even if they injure themselves, they'll find a way to discipline the employee because it's their fault. “Human behaviour” is the catchphrase right now. It's human behaviour. I was told

Transport committee  Again, with weather, I don't operate trains and am not very familiar with this. As an observer, I know that in extreme weather conditions, at minus 30 degrees, different rules apply. Railways can't operate the same length and weight of trains at minus 30 or 40 degrees as they can

Transport committee  I'm a health and safety coordinator. I represent the union. It's a joint effort, but my salary is paid for by CN Rail. I act as a liaison and I sit on the health and safety policy committee that I was mentioning, where I'm not getting the issues because they're getting caught in

Transport committee  Yes, for 12 years I was a maintenance worker, a machine operator, the guy who cleared snow on the track or things like that--spikers, on maintenance crews. This is a position I've had just recently.

Transport committee  I'm not sure of the frequency of their inspections. I have worked in local areas where track inspectors inspect it every second day, and then, depending on weather conditions, maybe every day. My point was about slowing trains down. In that area, when we're working a night shift

Transport committee  No, I'm a maintenance worker. I don't deal with transportation per se. I can speak to that issue a little bit, whereas they take the higher standard.... The reason we pushed for the 30 miles an hour by those sleep cars is that CP had a higher standard, and it took two or three

Transport committee  Now it's just CN.

Transport committee  Not about CP. It was very similar when we shared the same union, but now we don't. I'm not very familiar with CP anymore.