Transport committee  From a financial standpoint, it may not be. From a safety standpoint, it would obviously prevent some of the collisions. I would be lying to say that it wouldn't. However, at this time, as I've explained, we're looking at what the United States is doing. They're having some ser

Transport committee  It's not the savings; it's cost-benefit.

Transport committee  I think so. When we looked into it, we looked at other modes, and we had their experience in the application of those administrative monetary penalties. As I explained, it's going to be a maximum of $50,000 for an individual and $250,000 for a company, so it's kind of large. An

Transport committee  No. It's pretty significant.

Transport committee  Yes.

Transport committee  Plus, if you look at it historically, since 1997 we've only prosecuted the railways 13 times. It's very costly. It's time-consuming. Sometimes at the end of the day what's being imposed on the railway is not much, so the administrative monetary penalties will speed up the process

Transport committee  It's going to be administered according to the Financial Administration Act. Once it gets there, I don't know. It's not coming to us; that I know.

Transport committee  Thank you.

Transport committee  One of the things that was recognized through the Railway Safety Act was that we did not have enough people to handle that. We do now. We hired the last one, I think, a few months ago. So we will have more people to deal with that issue. Plus, we now have more people to deal wi

Transport committee  Yes. We had a 1-800 number with Transport Canada, with rail safety, where people could report everything they had seen. I will have to check. It's currently being revamped, because there are too many of these numbers right now, and people were—

Transport committee  Yes. It will be on our website and it'll be one number. We used to have one, as I said, but they just did a survey and there were several of them at Transport Canada. Other branches were getting complaints from rail; we were getting complaints from other branches. We're just tryi

Transport committee  Yes, and several of these powers will be delegated directly to inspectors in the field.

Transport committee  Yes.

Transport committee  Yes, the authority is delegated to the inspector by the minister.

Transport committee  Absolutely.