Transport committee  It may change. We are working with our American counterparts. The way they regulate is to have a proposed advanced rule-making notice. That came out in the fall. The Association of American Railroads commented on it, and we are working with them to look at the proposals, what cou

Transport committee  I can talk about the transport of dangerous goods and the air mode. As was explained before, carriers do have an SMS system in place where there's a component for dangerous goods. The way the transportation of dangerous goods program works is we do targeted inspections of shipp

Transport committee  Actually, in the Transportation of Dangerous Goods regulations we reference the international code. So we're basically equivalent. Sometimes we may add some requirements. At the other end, we try to avoid this because basically that would make it hard on international transport.

Transport committee  For marine and air; there are no railway codes.

Transport committee  Yes. Sorry.

Transport committee  We use inspection. Every time we go and inspect a facility—or a shipper, I should say, because the obligation is on the shipper and the importer to properly classify—we have inspections. We have chemists. My advisors at CANUTEC are actually trained chemists who can look at how th

Transport committee  There are tools of enforcement offered to us: we can ticket; we can give direction to remedy and to deal with non-compliance; and we can also prosecute.

Transport committee  There are financial penalties.

Transport committee  We haven't faced a lot of classification issues in the last couple of years. I guess crude petroleum is a different matter because it comes from the soil. It's a natural product, I should say, so it's different from classifying chlorine. That's why we have decided to target our

Transport committee  It's part of the criminal system. Once charges are laid and they're found guilty, the findings are public.

Transport committee  In the past year we have issued approximately 50 tickets under the Contraventions Act. Prosecution is a longer process. In the past two or three years, we've had about five per year. As I say, it depends on the type of infraction. We usually prosecute when fatalities or injuries

Transport committee  I can't right now, but if you want, I can get back to you.

Transport committee  I understand that there are some speed requirements, depending on the proximity of some municipalities and the density, but I think Luc is probably more aware of those regulations.

Transport committee  No, not currently.

Transport committee  When it was determined, after the Mississauga derailment, that an emergency response assistance plan should be put in place, one of the criteria we identified as a policy decision was ensuring that companies had the expertise and tools when first responders were not equipped to d