Transport committee  Yes. It's very tenuous. We receive presentations when we request them, but when we send in follow-up questions and ask questions that would really relate to how we operate and what our capacity is as a community, we don't receive responses. Since November, we have been waiting fo

Transport committee  Yes—very little. A number of years ago—I'm going to guess probably about five—as a regional district we had a full-day session in the Town of Smithers on rail safety and what it meant to our communities. We found that the information we received from the federal government had

Transport committee  It was for me, I think, wasn't it?

Transport committee  Thanks. We've talked to CNR. Our suggestion is that prior to a train leaving the place it starts at, it needs to have a manifest of what's on that train. That needs to go out ahead and be information that is immediately available on each train as it goes through a community. T

Transport committee  We've received very little response. Basically, we get a reinterpretation of what the act says, and we find the act to be very light when it comes to rail traffic. While there's a lot in it for sea traffic, it's very light for rail traffic. The thing is that we don't get a grea

Transport committee  Thank you. My name is Gerry Thiessen. I am the mayor of the District of Vanderhoof, and also the chair of the Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako. I am speaking from the traditional territory of the Saik'uz First Nation. In our regional district, we have six communities like V