Transport committee  It's extremely important. We have three dead people at the bottom of Field Hill because of what, so far, has been described as brake failure. Like I said, we still haven't received the TSB final report, but that's their initial take on it. We have had something like 12 fatalities in the last three years across Canada in the rail industry.

Transport committee  On the issue of the private or corporate police forces that both CN and CP currently use, we haven't really discussed that a lot with Transport Canada. We would have to rely on a legislative change to the Railway Safety Act in order to either change their jurisdictions or curb their powers.

Transport committee  The big gap that you're referring to in the work-rest rules right now is that they're in a three-year incorporation. That's how Transport Canada designed them. We're not going to know the complete impact until three-plus years from now. The fatigue management plans, we were told, were going to address the shortfalls in the work-rest rules approved by Transport Canada.

Transport committee  Thank you very much. I appreciate it. I'm Lyndon Isaak, and I'm the president of Teamsters Canada Rail Conference. Teamsters Canada Rail Conference represents 10,000 transportation employees in Canada from coast to coast. This includes locomotive engineers, conductors, yard persons and rail traffic controllers from CN, CP, VIA Rail and multiple short-line railroads.