Transport committee  If you'd like, we could just walk through the recommendations and note what the status is. If I'm using the same list, on page 43, there's recommendation 1, regarding staff. As I mentioned, there is staff who are maintaining our oversight regime. It has been allocated in Transpo

Transport committee  Yes, sorry.

Transport committee  Recommendation number 2 has been met in terms of establishing a new standard in a phase-out schedule. That was published last spring, at the end of April 2015. Recommendation number 3 is to harmonize the retrofit or replacement of the tank cars. That was the case, and a consider

Transport committee  If I may, perhaps I could just refer to the safety management system regulations that came into effect on April 1, 2015, as a result of some of the ongoing discussions in this area and some of the considerations raised in various fora. This is a requirement. It is very clear. I

Transport committee  It's a bit of an iterative process where regional offices develop their information and then feed it into a national system. Then a national assessment is done, and you go back to see what the timing is. It's quite an iterative process.

Transport committee  I would suggest the committee might want to look, Madam Chair, at what type of information you'd like us to provide in terms of.... I'm just not quite sure I understand.

Transport committee  I think we can provide a summary of that, if you like.

Transport committee  I believe that the requirements are very significant in terms of the engineering standards and the actual rules of the quality that has to be achieved. We would have to look at specific elements of exactly what is precluded or not included. I would add that the inspection requi

Transport committee  I think we may have mentioned, and I certainly did mention in the beginning of the comments that I made, that our annual plan for this year had in the vicinity of 33,400 inspection types of activities planned.

Transport committee  No.

Transport committee  The way that Transport Canada manages the national oversight plan each year, which is a key part of the work that is done to maintain the oversight of the railway safety regime and other safety regimes, is to do a national oversight plan. That plan looks at what the risk factors

Transport committee  If I may just briefly outline the way that the railway regime is structured, there are various classes of track. Depending on the speed that is desired to travel, a certain level of maintenance and quality of investment in that track is required to travel at that speed. There is

Transport committee  Madam Chair, could I just ask for a clarification? Amendments to increase the definition of “dangerous goods”—

Transport committee  —as opposed to the requirements in the ERAPs or...?

Transport committee  Ms. Girard may have something to add, Madam Chair. We have regulations in place that cover transloading facilities, and they are one of the primary targets of inspections. Those happen on a regular basis. I don't have any comment on the environmental assessment process. It's