Fisheries committee  Mr. Chair, unless Mr. Harvey has specific information he can provide, that is part of the ongoing investigation. I don't mean to repeat it, but I'm going to have to. We can talk generally about cargo spills, how we conduct investigations and what information we may have about w

Fisheries committee  Mr. Chair, this is the first investigation we're conducting that is specific to a cargo loss. The reason we're investigating is the subsequent fire. We have seen three other occurrences in the last 10 years related to cargo losses, but it is a fairly rare occurrence in Canada, an

Fisheries committee  Mr. Chair, what I can tell you is that, in any marine occurrence, we do look at the initial response, and there are other marine occurrences where we've looked at the initial environmental response. I'll give you the example of Nathan E. Stewart in 2016. We typically look at th

Fisheries committee  As I mentioned in my opening remarks, four other container spills that we're aware of were reported to TSB in the last 10 years. All of these occurrences are assessed and it's determined what level of investigation is going to be done. We collect some data and then we archive tha

Fisheries committee  Mr. Chair, I'll refer that question to Mr. Harvey, who is the director of marine investigations. I will remind the committee, though, that there are limited details we can provide at this time, given the ongoing nature of the investigation.

Fisheries committee  If I may just add, these are the sorts of timelines that we create as part of a sequence of events as we conduct our investigation, and it would be part of the final report when it's published.

Fisheries committee  I don't have the details, and Mr. Harvey may not have the details in his hands. That's why we suggest that the question go to the Coast Guard; however, the answer to the question will be part of the investigation and will be part of the final report. It's part of the sequence of

Fisheries committee  Go ahead, Mr. Harvey.

Fisheries committee  Mr. Chair, again, with due respect to the committee members, there's a lot of detailed information that is being asked about that investigation, which is an ongoing investigation. We may not have the details at hand, or we're not at liberty to release the details at this time bec

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I will be the only person speaking for the TSB until we get to the question period. Good morning, Mr. Chair and members. Thank you very much for inviting the Transportation Safety Board of Canada to discuss the important topic of marine safety and, specifi

Fisheries committee  Mr. Chair and members, good morning. Thank you for inviting the Transportation Safety Board of Canada to discuss the important topic of marine safety and, specifically, cargo container spills. Our mandate, and our sole purpose, is to advance transportation safety in the air, mar

Transport committee  To answer the first question, it is my understanding that the RCMP is conducting a criminal investigation into the Field occurrence, which is completely separate and independent from the TSB safety investigation into the same occurrence. I have no opinion to express on the role

Transport committee  Certainly, if you look at some of the trespassing occurrences—and I don't have good statistics on how many of those trespassing accidents were intentional versus accidental, if I may say—we do look at driver behaviour when we investigate crossing accidents. We don't do a lot of t

Transport committee  I'm not in a position to compare the new and the old, but we will certainly look at it in the context of our investigations. Because those new duty rules came into effect in November 2020, it takes a while before we see the impact of that in the system, but we certainly look at f

Transport committee  That's a big question. Railway companies are obviously required to send certain data to Transport Canada. We suggested in a previous recommendation that broadening the types of data sent to Transport Canada could improve monitoring of railway companies. For example, it is not en