Transport committee  I'm not sure I correctly understood your question. Investigators certainly conduct investigations into railway occurrences. Reports and recommendations are produced, as needed, through the TSB. I don't exactly know the purpose of your question and I apologize.

Transport committee  With respect to investigations and data collection, for example, we have sufficient powers under the Canadian Transportation Accident Investigation and Safety Board Act. Moreoever, the implementation of our recommendations is not mandatory, nor should it be. This gives us the ab

Transport committee  Mr. Chair, again, this is perhaps a question for Transport Canada. There are rules in place with respect to how long a train can occupy a crossing in other than exceptional circumstances. In fact, this is an issue we're looking at in an ongoing investigation at a crossing in Ont

Transport committee  I'm sorry, Mr. Chair, but I'm not able to answer any of those questions.

Transport committee  We have no jurisdiction per se, Mr. Chair, in that respect, but when we are investigating a crossing accident, we look at what impact those issues have had on a particular occurrence. Whether it's a train being delayed on a crossing, which can influence driver and pedestrian beha

Transport committee  If we were to make a specific recommendation relating to railway crossings, it goes to the Minister of Transport, who of course oversees both Transport Canada and the CTA in the portfolio. We make our recommendations to the Minister of Transport or to a minister of a federal depa

Transport committee  If we talk about our investigators, our personnel, they come from a variety of backgrounds. Many come from industry.

Transport committee  I misunderstood the question. Our budget comes from Parliament, but perhaps Monsieur Lapointe can add to the issue about resourcing.

Transport committee  We don't have any current outstanding recommendations related to crossings per se. We did have in the past. In fact, crossing safety was on our watch-list up until about 2014. It was in 2014 that the federal government implemented new grade crossings regulations and grade cross

Transport committee  The watch-list was initiated in 2010, because we had a number of long-standing outstanding recommendations that were not being acted on. We felt it was a way to attract attention and get further traction for change. It has been successful in that sense. Basically it's a combinat

Transport committee  Mr. Chair, we've laid out our desires in terms of what we'd like to see the emphasis on for rail safety, and that's on our watch-list with the five issues that I mentioned at the committee today.

Transport committee  I can give a partial answer. We can perhaps provide some more data if required. Each railway is required to have an emergency response assistance plan. They share aggregate numbers upon request with the communities through which they go. It's my understanding that first responde

Transport committee  I don't know if the particular incidents to which the member is referring are incidents or accidents, because we define occurrences as one or the other. As I said, we have, from the stats, almost 1,200 occurrence reports per year. We can't and don't investigate all of them. We h

Transport committee  Mr. Chair, members of the committee, good afternoon. Thank you for inviting the Transportation Safety Board of Canada, or TSB, to discuss the important topic of rail safety. As you know, our mandate and sole purpose is to advance transportation safety in the air, marine, pipeli

Transport committee  Mr. Chair, annex 13 was conceived to facilitate international investigations involving multiple states in the context of a more typical type of aircraft accident, so one where weather, human error or mechanical issues were a factor. It really wasn't conceived in the context of th