Transport committee  No, the TSB has authority when something happens on federal tracks.

Transport committee  Yes, but there's one thing that the current bill was trying to do under SMS. It has tried to change the safety culture in the company, and get the company and the employee to try to resolve their issues first, before they come to us, and have the company put in place a non-puniti

Transport committee  I don't know, because again, it's a security situation. We don't deal with security. We don't even deal with safety. From a safety standpoint, every inspector who carries out the function of an inspector needs to be qualified as per our own criteria. We do have training programs

Transport committee  It never happened in the past. Usually, when people come on board with us on a contract basis, they work for us. If they've got the qualifications, we may qualify them as railway safety inspectors. The only issue I have with the way it's worded now is that it makes reference to

Transport committee  No, the thing is that the Railway Safety Act, the way it's worded now, is what we use to determine who's going to be a rail safety inspector, who reports to my directorate, but it also covers screening officers who are under the security directorate, which is another branch in Tr

Transport committee  It could be, yes.

Transport committee  Working for us either on a.... I mean, we have people who are hired full time with us, but we do have to bring in people part time.

Transport committee  It could happen, yes.

Transport committee  Do you mean the addition of “standards”?

Transport committee  It was an omission. It's already in the act, but we forgot, when we drafted this, to include “standards”.

Transport committee  You're right; there's a mistake between the French and English.

Transport committee  It's because they added the word “standards”, and therefore they put “section 7”, because this is where it is.

Transport committee  Yes.

Transport committee  Can I just add one more thing, Mr. Chair? We're currently developing some crossing regulations as we speak, and one of the things we had to do was come up with how many lives we believe we're going to save, and how much property damage. The only way we can bring that regulatio

Transport committee  Either way it's okay.