Finance committee  Are you talking about a costing standard?

Finance committee  I guess I should mention, too, that there is also some work going on to develop grade crossing regulations. We are in the process of doing external consultations on that, which will put a level of standard at a crossing. That wouldn't address the financial component, but it woul

Finance committee  Yes. Fair enough.

Finance committee  With regard to the regulation-making power, yes. Instead of having to go back and change the act, should a change be required to the first amendment, it can be done through a regulation-making power. It could be in a regulation.

Finance committee  It can range anywhere from $200,000 to $350,000.

Finance committee  That would be for the full package: the gates, bells, lights, and larger packages. It would depend on how many masts you were putting in.

Finance committee  In the $200,000 scenario we would pay $100,000. We used to pay 80%, and now it's 50%.

Finance committee  Yes.

Finance committee  If we decided over time through a regulation that we wanted to specify maybe a higher portion than 12.5%, or a different percentage than is currently there, that would allow it. Different kinds of work may warrant higher percentages in different circumstances. With different clas

Finance committee  When we were providing 80% federal funding, the road authorities and the railways traditionally split the remaining 20%. The traditional split was 12.5% for the road authorities and 7.5% for the railways, so we kept the traditional proportion for the road authorities.

Finance committee  This came about as part of the DRAP exercise. If you recall, it started off as Bill C-33. It was reintroduced after the election and had been going on for quite some time. That bill was probably already in the Senate by the time these decisions were made to go forward with change

Finance committee  I guess. It's part of a reduction measure, but perhaps responsibility in areas where the benefits are to be gained as well....

Finance committee  Good afternoon. I'm Karen Swol from Transport Canada. The amendment we're going to present to you is on the Railway Safety Act. It's division 31, part 4. The amendment to the Railway Safety Act is as a result of a DRAP initiative from budget 2012, which reduced funding to the gr

Finance committee  That's correct.

Finance committee  Prior to the DRAP initiative there wasn't, because the initiatives under the DRAP were secret. Since this has now been produced in the budget, we have informed the stakeholders and we're assessing feedback at this point.