Transport committee  I think the standards we're working with right now are pretty good. I think we see fewer and fewer sun kinks. We have welded rail now, and it's being de-stressed, so we see less of that. Broken rail is still a problem when it's very cold, minus 35, minus 40. A lot of the railways

Transport committee  Yes, they may be able to detect cracks and vertical split heads; however, there are things that are very hard to detect. We do get some TSB reports saying that the root cause of the accident was a broken rail but it was almost impossible to detect with the current technology. Tha

Transport committee  I'd have to look at each of the railways, at exactly what frequency they're using.

Transport committee  Yes.

Transport committee  Not pre-established.

Transport committee  If you look at section 41 of the Railway Safety Act, what it says is, basically, whoever violates the Railway Safety Act can be subject to prosecution. So everything Marc has mentioned would be covered and everything you mentioned could be covered.

Transport committee  I can answer that now. In 2006 we issued a total of 50 notices and 26 notices in order, for a total of 76. So far this year we have issued 37 notices and 21 notices in order.

Transport committee  It is, yes. Probably 2006 was a higher number than we usually give on a yearly basis.

Transport committee  We could get you that. That's no problem.

Transport committee  Also, in 2006 three prosecutions were initiated: two against CN and one against one of CN's employees, who was found guilty two weeks ago. In 2007 there was a prosecution initiated against CP.

Transport committee  The x-ray cars are the ones that some of the railways are contracting from Sperry, which are actually able to detect some defects within the rail, whereas the other one is what we call a track geometry car, which mostly measures the geometry of the track, and the railway owns the

Transport committee  Usually, when there is an increase in terms of track-related accidents, we find through our inspections that there's a correlation.

Transport committee  No, there is no regulation. Actually, there is no regulation that forces the railway to purchase that type of equipment. However, what we provide within the track safety rules is that if you do use that type of equipment, you can reduce the number of visual inspections, because t

Transport committee  They definitely provide better readings than you can get visually.

Transport committee  Canadian fleets have about 97,000 cars, and globally in North America there are 1.2 million cars. On any given day, they're being called to go up and down constantly. It would be very hard to establish a.... Right off the top of my head, I don't know what the number would be, bu