Transport committee  Exactly.

Transport committee  Could I also say that in the province of New Brunswick everybody is required by law to publish any zoning changes in the local newspaper. As I said earlier, we have gone beyond that in our municipality. We notify each individual or business or homeowner in writing of any changes

Transport committee  Very definitely.

Transport committee  Yes, land planning is a provincial responsibility. As I said earlier, the requirement by our province is that we must provide notification in the local newspapers of any zoning changes. Our municipality has gone beyond that to notify each individual, in written form, of any zonin

Transport committee  In our community, with any zoning that's going to be changed we have a requirement that anybody within 100 metres, not 300 metres, must be notified. That's something we put in place in 2005. This is beyond what the land planning act requires. Citizens were telling us they didn't

Transport committee  I'm not aware of us getting any legal opinion on this. It's a good point--something else we can look at.

Transport committee  That's a good point you just made. That's not something I've heard discussed, although in our community we have a very well-organized emergency response plan. I think years ago we used to have people from the rail industry involved in it, but I don't think we do currently. But

Transport committee  I can't comment on that. I'm something like you; I know they put it in place, that's all. I don't know how it affects...I haven't been given any information to tell us how the various municipalities have been affected or have responded to this.

Transport committee  That would have to be approved by the Canadian Transport Commission. That was obviously approved by them, because it's been in place for a long time.

Transport committee  I don't have a copy of the memorandum in front of me, but as I said before, our committee is made up of representation from all of the rail industry along with municipal members of councils from across Canada. There have been a number of issues that we have assisted the municipal

Transport committee  I don't have any as well.

Transport committee  There again, I don't have that statistic available. I would say it's probably because of something you just described, that most of the short lines are not used as much and they have been closed. I would suggest there's less rail throughout our whole country, and based on that,

Transport committee  I think it certainly has happened throughout Canada. Here in Newfoundland, for example, the rail industry has been removed entirely. In the province of P.E.I., it has been removed entirely. I know in the province I live in, New Brunswick, it has certainly been reduced considerabl

Transport committee  I can't really speak to that; I can only speak to the city I live in, which is Moncton, New Brunswick. We went through a real economic challenge back in the mid eighties, and there were a significant number of rail jobs eliminated in our community. Moncton was created as a res

Transport committee  We have three major trucking companies with headquarters in Moncton.