Transport committee  It was 20 total oversight personnel in rail safety.

Transport committee  As of April 1, 2015, we were at 122 oversight positions staffed in rail safety. That includes people who are dedicated to inspections. Some of them do inspections and audits. Others do just audits, and others are engineers or have other types of capacities to do specialized types

Transport committee  Just a moment, please. Ms. Diogo, do you know?

Transport committee  Yes.

Transport committee  No, I wouldn't be able to speculate on those costs. I think there were very substantial costs at the municipal and the provincial level, as well as at the federal level, but I have not seen any accumulation of those costs.

Transport committee  I don't know that anybody has that responsibility. I couldn't speak to that. It's certainly not within my responsibilities, but I would say that in general these figures are always subject to substantial change and do take several years in most cases to finalize.

Transport committee  The risk assessments that the railways have provided for us, in terms of assessing that, are the proprietary information of the railways. They are their information. It would be most appropriate, as we have said before, Mr. Chair, to go to the railways for the information. It wou

Transport committee  I would absolutely say, Mr. Chair, that the changes we've made to the program since 2013, and in particular since the recommendations of the Auditor General, have made a significant difference to the program. We do see that difference to the degree each day as we see more informa

Transport committee  Mr. Chair, if I may, I'll speak directly to the SMS—safety management system—regulations. Those regulations were promulgated. They came into force on April 1, and the companies are now in the process of converting their systems and establishing some of those new elements that I t

Transport committee  The administrative monetary penalty regulations came into force on April 1, 2015. There is a very significant and robust plan to implement those and to train our inspectors on how to apply them, and there is a process on how to approve them in a formal method so that we make sure

Transport committee  If I can start with the answer in regard to the audits that were not completed, we have accepted all of the recommendations of the Auditor General. We have implemented a new system to look at the scheduling of audits on a broader basis, looking at full-scale audits over a cycle o

Transport committee  If I can just touch back to the beginning of the question, Mr. Chair, one of the responses the minister made to the interim recommendations on the terrible events at Lac-Mégantic included the issue of risk assessments. One of the things that was produced was an emergency directiv

Transport committee  Thank you for the question. The answer is a little bit complicated, because we have a large number of people in the department who perform oversight functions. Amongst those are inspectors who are actually classified as inspectors and perform inspections primarily, but other act

Transport committee  Thank you for the opportunity to speak to you today, Mr. Chair, and members of the committee. As you are aware, Transport Canada developed an ambitious and comprehensive action plan to address the recommendations in the Auditor General’s fall 2013 report. Implementing the plan h

Transport committee  It's a good question. One of the things that did come up in a number of conversations is that kind of issue. One of the things the minister announced last spring was an emergency response task force. The purpose of that was to bring together the broad community of people who ar