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Transport committee We're going back to the early eighties. Those were called following the Mississauga accident. They called it the gateway concept. I would have to go back, but if I remember correctly, in municipalities with a population of between 10,000 and 50,000, as long as the train gets an i
November 27th, 2013Committee meeting
Luc Bourdon
Transport committee No, no. CN has the largest system of wayside detection in North America.
November 27th, 2013Committee meeting
Luc Bourdon
Transport committee Either by hot box detector dragging equipment or by an individual, and if they want to avoid that, it's 15 miles an hour.
November 27th, 2013Committee meeting
Luc Bourdon
Transport committee What we've done in some of our regions is we have taken people who had the background to inspect cars and they were trained as TDG inspectors, so they could do both. So you would not have someone who would look at only the running gear of that particular car and then have someone
November 27th, 2013Committee meeting
Luc Bourdon
Transport committee Usually it's a bit easier to take someone who has a rail background and make them a TDG inspector, because the apprenticeship to be a car inspector is about 8,000 hours, which is usually what you get with the rail industry. Marie-France's group will give them the training to be
November 27th, 2013Committee meeting
Luc Bourdon
Transport committee About eight.
November 27th, 2013Committee meeting
Luc Bourdon
Transport committee When we set that target, we thought at the time we could probably meet that three-year cycle. We also tried not to decrease the amount of inspection we were doing. For instance, this year we're planning 10 audits for 10 different railways, which is about one-third of the industry
November 27th, 2013Committee meeting
Luc Bourdon
Transport committee According to the OAG, we completed 26%.
November 27th, 2013Committee meeting
Luc Bourdon
Transport committee It's one quarter, yes.
November 27th, 2013Committee meeting
Luc Bourdon
Transport committee We thought we could do them. At the time we believed we would be able to do all of that.
November 27th, 2013Committee meeting
Luc Bourdon
Public Accounts committee I just want to clarify an issue. We were kind of surprised when we saw the 10, and I talked to the Auditor General, who gave us some precision. That is actually a number, a figure, that was provided by our people, and those were the ones who had SMS as a designation on their card
April 30th, 2014Committee meeting
Luc Bourdon
Public Accounts committee That would bring our entire inspection force—because it's moving, as you mentioned, we're retiring, we're gaining—to about 105 right now, which means that 105 will have the training by June. There are five remaining, which includes some inspectors as well as some managers. So we'
April 30th, 2014Committee meeting
Luc Bourdon
Public Accounts committee That's about it, yes.
April 30th, 2014Committee meeting
Luc Bourdon
Public Accounts committee It's probably going to go to five.
April 30th, 2014Committee meeting
Luc Bourdon
Public Accounts committee Yes. So, to answer your question, 100% of our people will be fully trained to do audits by the end of June.
April 30th, 2014Committee meeting
Luc Bourdon