Transport committee  It's a burden we can't bear. Again, as I said earlier, a short line is not a short line.... You can't compare the risk for my company moving a car 4 kilometres at less than 10 kilometres per hour to that of another short line that has main-line track and is operating over hundr

Transport committee  Yes.

Transport committee  I don't understand how you would get into position. Do we cut back on our maintenance? Do we cut back on our employees? Where do we find the money? If we don't have to find it this year, we have to find it next year or the year after. We can't pass it on to our customers, so at s

Transport committee  First of all, as I said earlier, there's no comparison between us and even other short lines, let alone a comparison between Essex Terminal Railway and main-line carriers. We operate under totally different circumstances, and our risk is entirely different. The fact that in 34 ye

Transport committee  One possibility would be exempting us from this regulation in the same way we've been exempted from the interswitching regulation in recognition of the very unique characteristics of our company. The fact is that we don't operate on main lines. We operate over very short distance

Transport committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm very grateful to have this opportunity to speak about how Bill C-52 may have some unintended consequences that will affect my company and the community in which we operate. I will start by saying first that while all men are created equal, all railways