Public Accounts committee  There are two parts to answer that question. The first is that the regulations in 2015 established a modern standard for what has to be in a safety management system, with significant detail that maps to the best knowledge of the day in terms of safety outcomes. It's the accounta

Public Accounts committee  I agree with the Auditor General's take that there's been significant progress in terms of dangerous goods and there are some areas outstanding that we are driving to address. There are two parts to that. One of it is there's some similarity to the observations on this audit in

Public Accounts committee  Land acquisition is always a sensitive issue in a project like this, but we have done a lot of preparatory work for the next step, which is land acquisition. We will soon be ready to contact the owners of the land involved in the project.

Public Accounts committee  Madam Chair, the member has asked a good question. We continue to look at areas of action and investment to strengthen training, performance and safety results. I have to confess that I can't remember all the details of that proposal because it was in circulation a couple of yea

Public Accounts committee  Sure. I remember the proposal. I just can't remember all the details. Thank you for offering to resend it.

Public Accounts committee  I completely agree.

Public Accounts committee  Yes. Officials from Transport Canada and the Office of the Auditor General have had some interesting conversations about best practices to guide our efforts to put in place a system to measure the effectiveness of rail safety management systems. Mike, I'll turn it to you. Could

Public Accounts committee  Madam Chair, the member has cut to the fundamental objective, which is to get the fundamentally important things like accidents and deaths down. We see it heading in the right direction. Accidents and deaths are down while the number of trains and the revenue ton-miles are up.

Public Accounts committee  It's as volume is increasing. I don't think we have any—

Public Accounts committee  I'll say one thing. Our goal is zero, and we're going to keep doing stuff to get as close as we can.

Public Accounts committee  Thank you. I would just say, Madam Chair, that the member has identified a key issue, which is the level crossings. The safety result depends on our rules and the railways' operations, but what the landowners and others are doing around those crossings is a key area of focus goi

Public Accounts committee  We are working very hard on the rail bypass project, in close co-operation with CP. In one way it took a little bit of time when CP bought CMQR. In another way we're very pleased because they are a large outfit that has the ability to marshal massive resources in building. We're

Public Accounts committee  Again, that's a great question. In fact, the improvements we're making, literally month by month and year by year, are pulling in more information to assess risk and identify risk. We're actually putting in regulatory standards to collect more information. One of them is the stri

Public Accounts committee  We'd be happy to.

Public Accounts committee  It's a great question. We certainly are taking into account all of those factors, I would say, and are looking across.... I'll give you an example. We saw a that pattern of main track derailments was sneaking up, and we were very concerned. We pulled all the data we could and st