Transport committee  I'll speak to my expertise from a safety perspective. From a safety perspective, we monitor and work closely with all infrastructure owners to make sure there's a proper level of safety for us to operate passenger trains on. We did so towards the Gaspé region, and we did that on

Transport committee  That would vary from railway to railway, so it would depend on who owns the rail infrastructure, whether it be governmental or private. In the case of Gaspé, it's owned by the provincial government. In British Columbia, it is owned by a group of communities, so I can't speak on t

Transport committee  The schedules, naturally, will vary, depending on the region in which we operate. For our high-speed corridor between Quebec City and Windsor, the schedules for a trip would be between three and six hours. They get a rest period between that and their next assignment, so the hour

Transport committee  Is that directed to VIA Rail?

Transport committee  With proactive measures, we monitor and measure the performance of our locomotive engineers thousands of hours a month. We monitor every train speed, every day, with our PSI system that monitors all of our high-speed corridor trains. We measure speed every day. Our performance c

Transport committee  Sure.

Transport committee  Very good.

Transport committee  Well, I'd like to say prior to closing that safety is incredibly important to us. I will leave it to the question period to make other statements.

Transport committee  Yes, I would, Madam Chair. Thank you. Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, members of the committee. My name is Marc Beaulieu. I'm the chief transportation and safety officer for VIA Rail Canada. I'm delighted to appear before you today, joined by my colleague, director of go