Transport committee  I'm going to separate your question into two. The first aspect would be around the question of the engineering principles. Currently when we see the term “engineering principles” in the Railway Safety Act, we see ambiguity—we see that it's interpreted in a number of different way

Transport committee  I'm going to go to the other aspect, which is how our professional engineers are currently consulted for a railway project. We look at the way that professional engineers are consulted and we see an inconsistency. We see that it's not always clear exactly when a professional engi

Transport committee  We have consulted our member regulators on the Railway Safety Act and these are the key issues that our member regulators have identified nationally. Thank you.

Transport committee  I'm going to start with a previous question you asked. It was about climate vulnerability assessments and their connection to environmental assessments. The way that environmental assessments currently work, there is not traditionally a part that includes the climate vulnerabilit

Transport committee  I don't have the dates at my fingertips, but it is something that we could provide to the committee after the meeting.

Transport committee  Certainly. The way the tool works is that a project, whether a proposed project or a piece of infrastructure currently in place, is assessed in terms of how it is operating in our current climate. For example, we look at rain, wind speeds, and so on. Then, we look at what will

Transport committee  What we would propose is that the assessments be included in new federal funding. Let's look at a simple way of going forward. If the federal government is going to be investing large dollars into new infrastructure, then we believe that it needs to know the vulnerabilities of th

Transport committee  The cost, we believe, would be relatively small compared to the larger cost of losing the infrastructure completely.

Transport committee  Regarding asset management plans, I might defer to my neighbour George Bell, regarding Metrolinx, to begin.

Transport committee  Regarding asset management plans and whether they are being adhered to, that is a question I will have to take back to my organization and we will provide information to the committee on that. However, in addition to the asset management plans, I would like to raise the climate

Transport committee  We do have information to back that up. I don't have the percentages here with me today, but I can provide them to the committee following this meeting.

Transport committee  I think there are several aspects of the cost discussion, and it's a cost-benefit risk discussion. We would need to look at what the risks are of not using a professional engineer and factor those into the cost.

Transport committee  Thank you.

Transport committee  Engineers are currently used in the maintenance of railways but not consistently. What we are offering is that we're happy to work collaboratively with the federal government to be able to identify and further define what is meant by “engineering principles” so it reduces the cur

Transport committee  The case of the Churchill line is an example of the need for climate vulnerability assessment. In the case of the Churchill line, there was no climate vulnerability assessment undertaken. Therefore, there was not the understanding that with the change in climate, more extreme w