Transport committee  We'll know that because we know exactly what they told us at the end of 2012 what they were hoping to achieve in 2013.

Transport committee  I think it was both. Whereas we did take some of our inspectors and train them to be auditors, we also hired people who had the auditing skills to lead some of these audits. For example, in Ottawa at headquarters we hired people who had an auditor's background in order to assis

Transport committee  That's the number of inspections we conducted.

Transport committee  I think we've increased from year to year.

Transport committee  It varies from year to year, depending on how many components of the SMS regulation we want to verify. We may not do a full-blown audit of the 12 components. We may just be risk-based and do only a certain amount of these components. It could vary, nine or twelve; I could bring

Transport committee  For a company the size of our class 1 railway, if you tried to gather all the information and all the documentation, it could fill a room.

Transport committee  Last year we did close to 32,000.

Transport committee  I think it's 31,625 or something like that.

Transport committee  Since the beginning? I would say pretty much all of them, several times.

Transport committee  I think at the onset we started with full-blown audits with the 12 components, but after a while we tried to be more risk-based and focus on the key components.

Transport committee  Annually we gather our employees from the region. We get together, and we do what we call a risk-based business planning session. We look at the results of our inspection, the complaints we may have received, and TSB's report, and try to focus on where we see the risks are greate

Transport committee  I think we progressed by adopting many of the recommendations that were generated by the report Mr. Watson is talking about. I mentioned earlier that now we have guidelines that were developed to assist the railway. We have best practices that were gathered in two documents to as

Transport committee  Merci, monsieur McDonald. The SMS regulations were added to the Railway Safety Act in 2001, following some amendments that came into force in 1999. As per a provision in section 51 of the act in 1988, four years after, there was a mandatory review that took place, in 1994, and t

Transport committee  The cost-benefit ratio. In other words, it's $21 of investment for $1 of saving.

Transport committee  No. I don't think so.