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Transport committee  Yes. Each of our modes has quite comprehensive training requirements and programs in place, and that's something we pay a great deal of attention to—making sure they're inspected and have appropriate training to carry out their duties.

November 27th, 2013Committee meeting

Gerard McDonald

Transport committee  We'll do our best to get it here as quickly as possible, Mr. Chair.

November 27th, 2013Committee meeting

Gerard McDonald

Transport committee  Whatever fuel might be aboard would be it, as far as I'm aware.

November 27th, 2013Committee meeting

Gerard McDonald

Transport committee  There's fuel on board, so that would be considered a dangerous good. That would probably not be considered as something that would be of a high enough risk to concern our dangerous goods people.

November 27th, 2013Committee meeting

Gerard McDonald

Transport committee  I think the technical detail of that question is probably beyond our expertise set at this point, Mr. Chair. But suffice it to say that the design of any car would take into account a great many factors, all of which have to be assessed in order to determine whether proposed chan

November 27th, 2013Committee meeting

Gerard McDonald

Transport committee  Potentially, yes.

November 27th, 2013Committee meeting

Gerard McDonald

Transport committee  Yes, I do.

November 27th, 2013Committee meeting

Gerard McDonald

Transport committee  That was the original plan, yes.

November 27th, 2013Committee meeting

Gerard McDonald

Transport committee  Perhaps Monsieur Bourdon can....

November 27th, 2013Committee meeting

Gerard McDonald

Transport committee  As Monsieur Bourdon tried to point out, we had originally thought we would do audits over a three-year period. As we explained on Monday, our oversight program consists of audits and inspections, and there's a mix there.

November 27th, 2013Committee meeting

Gerard McDonald

Transport committee  Yes, and based on our estimation of the risk in the system and what was required to give us a degree of confidence on the safety—

November 27th, 2013Committee meeting

Gerard McDonald

Transport committee  —we felt at the time that the original number of audits that had been planned for was probably in excess of what was needed.

November 27th, 2013Committee meeting

Gerard McDonald

Transport committee  What we're saying is we adjusted our level of audit based on what we felt was necessary on our part to ensure safety in the system.

November 27th, 2013Committee meeting

Gerard McDonald

Transport committee  We'll be looking at that over the course of the next year, that among other regulatory developments; we're on an accelerated time scale.

November 27th, 2013Committee meeting

Gerard McDonald

Transport committee  No, we wouldn't foresee...although I can't preclude that. That wouldn't be my decision to bring in a new act. But the solutions we're looking at now would be regulatory solutions within the current legislative construct.

November 27th, 2013Committee meeting

Gerard McDonald