Transport committee  I think the issues that have been raised are the issues that have been talked about fairly commonly across the previous committee meetings. I leave that to the committee to further pursue, but as we noted one good example is the Transportation Safety Board's recommendation on voi

Transport committee  Madam Chair, under the new safety management system regulations that came into effect on April 1, 2015, there is a clause that was part of what was discussed in the previous Railway Safety Act review back in 2007-08, and the legislation was amended in 2013, if I recall correctly,

Transport committee  Madam Chair, I'm sorry, but I'm not an expert in this area, and I couldn't speak to CTA's progress in its process of implementing the new requirements under the Railway Safety Act amendments of last year. I could perhaps defer—

Transport committee  At this point in time we don't have any published consultation proposals on that element, and I'm not aware of any at this point.

Transport committee  If there is an interest, Madam Chair, depending on the level of detail you would like to get, there certainly is an outline on our website of the emergency response task force and the members of that group. I think there are approximately 70 of those, representing a wide variety

Transport committee  Madam Chair, if I may, in terms of the general national consultations, much of that has gone on through the emergency task force and is covered in those meeting records, but there have been many other meetings going on at the local level where we work with our remedial measures s

Transport committee  At this point in time, no, there isn't a requirement in the U.S. They are looking at the value of whether voice and video recorders should be used, and we are working closely with them as well, because obviously there are many cross-border issues.

Transport committee  I can give you a high-level answer to that, and then if you would like more details we could probably turn to Nicole Girard. The main thing Transport Canada has done over the last year and a half is that it has brought together the emergency response task force, bringing togethe

Transport committee  Under the two different pieces of legislation that we're talking about, under the transportation of dangerous goods legislation and the railway safety legislation, there are two slightly different mechanisms to achieve much of the same outcomes. The protective direction is also m

Transport committee  Good afternoon, and thank you, Madam Chair. I would like to begin by thanking the committee for the opportunity to speak today about the work we are doing to continuously improve railroad safety for all Canadians. Rail safety and the safe transportation of dangerous goods by rai

Transport committee  Sure. In most of the modes of transportation there are regulations or rules that set out the hours of operation for trucking, or the pilot hours of work for aviation, etc. Those rules apply fairly prescriptively as a set of requirements. Within each industry they apply how they

Transport committee  That's right. It's always a question of knowing how to ensure oversight. Things are working well, but it can be difficult, depending on the type of operation. If it's a small company operating at a farther distance, then it's something you have to travel more frequently to. We d

Transport committee  If I may just touch on the last part of your question, I believe you were referring to the transportation of dangerous goods and the inspections that go on.

Transport committee  We have a very robust program, as well, on inspecting the means of containment, whether they're designed, built, and then operated correctly. While dangerous goods are under the form of transportation appropriate, whether it be marine, rail—in surface, it tends to be the highway

Transport committee  Thank you very much for the question. There are obviously technicalities below that, but very simply, the standards that have been established under the versions of the TP312 document have gone in a series of updates over the decades. Each time those updates are established, ob