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Transport committee We are responsible for track inspections. We perform track inspections. Maybe I went really quickly through the presentation. Track inspections are performed first of all by highly skilled, trained people who are mandated, but we also do it at a higher level. They're mandated t
March 24th, 2015Committee meeting
Jim Vena
Transport committee It's in the number of inspections per week. With visual inspections, we do that. I know we go over in the number of ultrasound tests we do, and the geometry tests. We have the new autonomous railcar that will run up and down the track, which is above and beyond our normal, regula
March 24th, 2015Committee meeting
Jim Vena
Transport committee I'm sorry about that.
March 24th, 2015Committee meeting
Jim Vena
Transport committee I've been told I'm a little wordy. I apologize; I'm sorry about that.
March 24th, 2015Committee meeting
Jim Vena
Transport committee Thank you very much. It will be one more minute, Mr. Chairman.
March 24th, 2015Committee meeting
Jim Vena
Transport committee One of the comments so far is that CN has been ahead of regulations in many areas, and this journey continues. Recent examples include our securement changes, implementation of key train policies and key crude policies, corridor risk assessments, implementation of leading-edge te
March 24th, 2015Committee meeting
Jim Vena
Transport committee Thank you very much. I appreciate the invitation. Most of you I've seen in the recent past, so it's nice to be here. To my left is Michael Farkouh, VP of safety and sustainability, and to my right is Sean Finn. He has a long title, but we'll shorten it to CLO and corporate serv
March 24th, 2015Committee meeting
Jim Vena
Transport committee Listen, I love that he went over from CN and now he's the safest railroad in North America. He keeps on saying that, but so are we. We're very good. At the end of the day, I agree with Keith. I think he handled it right. That's exactly what we need to do as an industry.
April 3rd, 2014Committee meeting
Jim Vena
Transport committee Sometimes you're smart to pass it off to a guy who knows it better than you, so away you go, Michael.
April 3rd, 2014Committee meeting
Jim Vena
Transport committee [Inaudible—Editor]
April 3rd, 2014Committee meeting
Jim Vena
Transport committee It's on the U.S. side and in Canada.
April 3rd, 2014Committee meeting
Jim Vena
Transport committee Because of the number of commodities already labelled as dangerous commodities that we handle, we have a very robust system. I think you could spend hours here explaining the regulations involved in the movement of dangerous goods and the speed restrictions. We at CN sat down a
April 3rd, 2014Committee meeting
Jim Vena
Transport committee May I add something to that comment, please. In the Canadian economy, these products that we ship are necessary. We use them in a number of products in Canada, such as chlorine in drinking water. It has to get to market. How is it going to get to market? I'm not asking it as a
April 3rd, 2014Committee meeting
Jim Vena
Transport committee I am. I'm sorry.
April 3rd, 2014Committee meeting
Jim Vena
Transport committee That number comes from the Association of American Railroads which gathers all the information from all the railroads. It came up with a number of incidents out of everything that was moved. It wasn't CN or us specifically. It was the AMR.
April 3rd, 2014Committee meeting
Jim Vena