Transport committee  Yes, thank you. Mr. Chair, protective direction 36 does, indeed, require our railway companies to share information on dangerous goods passing through communities. Communities must first register with CANUTEC, our 24-7 emergency response centre, which will facilitate that sharin

Transport committee  Indeed, an ERAP provides key resources, personnel and equipment to support first responders during an incident. Since the Lac-Mégantic tragedy, we've required railway companies or shippers of dangerous goods by rail to have in place ERAPs for about 11 or 12 different types of fla

Transport committee  They are not public documents. They are reviewed and approved by the transportation of dangerous goods program. There is a very careful vetting process, confirmation and a sort of audit of those plans.

Transport committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. One of the major actions we took after the Lac-Mégantic tragedy was to develop a new, more robust, crash-resistant tanker standard for the transport of flammable liquids. Part of that standard also included requirements for the gradual phase-out of DOT-111

Transport committee  I believe—

Transport committee  With our transportation of dangerous goods rules and rail safety rules we prioritize the sites based on the sort of risk they bring forward. For example, if a site hasn't been inspected in a number of years or if it has a history of non-compliance, we will inspect it more frequen

Transport committee  From the perspective of the transportation of dangerous goods, we do a number of things. Our program has been organized around risk, and we take that very seriously. It drives a lot of what we do, including our inspections. The first part of how we go about this is that we've de

Transport committee  It's a very good question. I would say that the government has invested heavily in both the rail safety program and the TDG safety program since the tragedy of Lac-Mégantic. Our resources in terms of our ability to examine the risks in the transportation of dangerous goods syst

Transport committee  I am not familiar with the report.