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Transport committee Again, coming back to one of the key tenets of responsible care, it's community awareness. Obviously at that time there were no systems in place to have advised the community of what to do in the event of an incident. We hope, perhaps, with the Lac-Mégantic tragedy as well, tha
May 6th, 2014Committee meeting
Fiona Cook
Transport committee There are a number of cases, particularly in Ontario at the moment, where we are trying to get municipalities to recognize the existing buffer zones, as we call them.
May 6th, 2014Committee meeting
Fiona Cook
Transport committee We would continue to do what we're doing at the moment, but obviously those efforts would be focused on where they'd be needed, depending on where those shipments were going. We already have the structure in place to deal with the communities and to make sure there's a first-resp
May 6th, 2014Committee meeting
Fiona Cook
Transport committee Our member companies are verified by a third party every three years. The third-party verification is not just the typical auditor, you also have community members who come in as well as members from environmental groups. It's a full-scale—we call it a verification, not an audit.
May 6th, 2014Committee meeting
Fiona Cook
Transport committee Yes, we have committees called leadership groups. We have something called a share committee, which looks at health and safety within the workplace. That's the whole point of those committees, to get around and have round table discussions of what companies have learned and what
May 6th, 2014Committee meeting
Fiona Cook
Transport committee I could reply in French, but I will reply in English so that everyone understands. Yes, we would love to see more people become part of the responsible care program. We did have a TransCAER event out west, I think about a month ago. We had the petroleum people attend, so I think
May 6th, 2014Committee meeting
Fiona Cook
Transport committee That's also, I guess, because about 80% of our shipments do go to the U.S.
May 6th, 2014Committee meeting
Fiona Cook
Transport committee As I mentioned earlier, our responsible care program is a continual improvement SMS system. We believe, yes, the focus should be on prevention. Insurance is your last line of defence, and there could be improvements, we believe, on the safety side that need to be looked at. But a
May 6th, 2014Committee meeting
Fiona Cook
Transport committee Same here. We either own them or lease them. We support any safer standard, but we want certainty and the issue right now is that there is no new standard yet to look at investment decisions around retrofitting and buying new cars. We need that first to really have a good analysi
May 6th, 2014Committee meeting
Fiona Cook
Transport committee I'll answer in English.
May 6th, 2014Committee meeting
Fiona Cook
Transport committee Well, I think that would be the way you would have it recognized as a standard, yes.
May 6th, 2014Committee meeting
Fiona Cook
Transport committee Or it's going to the shareholders.
May 6th, 2014Committee meeting
Fiona Cook
Transport committee We don't believe so, but we think it should. It should be used to fund future liabilities and not go to the shareholders.
May 6th, 2014Committee meeting
Fiona Cook
Transport committee That is correct.
May 6th, 2014Committee meeting
Fiona Cook
Transport committee We've supported that view. We made a submission to the Canadian Transportation Agency earlier this year on third-party liability insurance requirements. It's clear that the short lines cannot insure to the level that the class I railways can. We suggested some kind of pooling. We
May 6th, 2014Committee meeting
Fiona Cook