Transport committee  I'd have to echo that I need a little more context to answer the question, because, overall, our train accident frequency of what are called reportable accidents has continued to improve, and we continue to be the safest railway in North America.

Transport committee  I think it's complicated.

Transport committee  The overall, let's say, loss of barrels from rail versus pipeline incidents isn't significantly different. Obviously, the nature of some of the incidents, including a tragedy, have been different. We would advocate for safer railcars. We applaud the government for the recent mo

Transport committee  I'll go first. Thank you. Certainly, the increasing demand across all commodities has been a bit of a challenge. Last year we saw the ramp up, principally once the Keystone pipeline had the problems in South Dakota, and that widened oil spreads and then increased demand I would

Transport committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. It's a pleasure to be here this morning. My name is James Clements. I'm CP's vice-president of strategic planning and transportation services. CP is pleased that your committee is studying the efficiency of Canada's trade corridors. CP's transcontinenta

Agriculture committee  The biggest challenge in the Lower Mainland is that there are a number of bottlenecks and other constraints that affect the fluidity of the traffic in and out of that area, and in and out of various facilities. Enhancing the road-rail interface by grade separations is an exampl

Agriculture committee  At this point they are multi-stakeholder investments. There are a number of national trade corridor fund requests that have identified significant investments that would help remove the bottlenecks. There hasn't been an announcement or a decision yet around which projects are goi

Agriculture committee  You know, the big focus that we have—and I mentioned a precision-scheduled railroad—is delivering to that first promised delivery time of the train. That's something we're focused on. We measure internally all the time what we call “trip plan performance”. We recognize that we ha

Agriculture committee  Similar to what Mike said, we started hiring crews in the fall for the training process. It is six to nine months before they're productive operators on our trains. We started in the fall, and we also started bringing on locomotives. We did have a forecast in terms of demand, but

Agriculture committee  In terms of what the government can do, first I'd say that we have 12,000 railroaders, men and women, who are out there tirelessly working to move all the commodities that are produced in Canada and across this country, not just grain. In terms of how we move forward, there are

Agriculture committee  You asked about the performance that challenged us the most, and the first thing I'd say is that we had a period of about 10 days or so in which we had a series of derailments in western Canada. That was the most challenging period of time that we had. If you look at the statisti

Agriculture committee  On our side, I'd make the same comments. We look forward and continue to plan, and the more information and the more visibility and understanding of what the changes are.... We're what I'd call capitalists out here. We want to make money. Not moving demand isn't in the interests

Agriculture committee  I don't know the absolute net trend from 2012 until now. CP went through an unprecedented change in our operating model, with precision schedule railroading. You can't compare how CP was operating back then to how we're operating now. We've made vast improvements in our efficienc

Agriculture committee  Go ahead.

Agriculture committee  Yes, I have a couple of quick comments. We made the call for the national trade corridors fund, and I think you have to look at Vancouver and what the opportunities are to continue to enhance the capacity at that end of the supply chain. That's going to be one of the most critica