Transport committee  Yes, I can draw a reference to two events. On January 5, 2015, the slide occurred at 11:30 p.m., which is interesting, and the train arrived at 1:45 a.m., then stopped for three hours and four minutes. The other occasion was February 18, 2016, when a tree fell across the tracks s

Transport committee  Certainly there is. There are options for that type of a blockage. We have access to air support, both through the RCMP and through the BC Ambulance Service for incremental emergencies, where we could actually bypass that. Those types of strategies and implementation—hence, the

Transport committee  In reference to the City of Surrey, I'll speak to that directly. First to the question, the City of Surrey fire services are amply trained and equipped to deal with dangerous goods emergencies, whatever the transportation means, and I'm pleased to advise you that the city has bee

Transport committee  That would not be correct. Our evidence suggests that in six crossing events that met the threshold since 2010, the stopped train protocol was not followed to brake the train. As I mentioned to you before, Transport Canada is investigating the most recent one. We have been advis

Transport committee  Yes, we certainly would. Thank you very much. Just to reintroduce myself, I'm Len Garis, the fire chief, but I am also appointed as the city's emergency planner under the Emergency Program Act of the Province of British Columbia,. So there are two pieces of contacts here that ar