Traduction de «Rail Section Canada-USSR Transportation Working Group » (Anglais → Français) :

(Return tabled) Question No. 130 Mr. Francis Scarpaleggia: With regard to rail safety in Canada: (a) for the period of 2006-2012, which railways were permitted to operate with a single operator; (b) for the period of 2006-2012, which railways had permission to leave trains unattended for limited periods of time on main lines with or without an idling locomotive(s); (c) for the period of 2006-2012, which railways had permission to leave trains unattended for limited periods of time on side lines with or without an idling locomotive(s); (d) with regard to the railways in (b) and (c), under what specific conditions could the trains be le ...[+++]ft unattended; (e) what legislative or regulatory framework governs local emergency preparedness plans in the event of a rail accident; (f) with respect to the plans in (e), (i) who is responsible for creating and executing such plans, (ii) by whom are they audited, (iii) how often are they audited, (iv) against what criteria are they audited; (g) by whom and how often are municipalities through which freight trains pass provided with regular reports on (i) the state of local emergency preparedness in the event of a rail accident, (ii) the state and maintenance record of the railway lines within their borders, (iii) the materials, hazardous or not, that are transported through their jurisdiction; (h) if reports referred to in (g) are not provided, why not; (i) how many of the DOT-111 railway tank cars and the DOD-112 tank cars are in use in Canada, for each year since 2006; (j) for each year since 2006, how many rolling stock and track safety inspectors were employed at Transport Canada, broken down by (i) province of work, (ii) oversight responsibility; (k) for each year since 2006, how many rolling stock and track safety inspectors employed by Transport Canada were responsible for inspections in (i) the Greater Montreal Area, (ii) the municipality of Pointe-Claire (iii) the municipality of Beaconsfield, (iv) the municipality ...

Fundamental changes are difficult to make at any given time, let alone in the wake of an accident such as the accident in Lac-Mégantic, but what we said was that we would put together a serious working group, including the union, the rail industry, and officials from Transport Canada, to take a look and report and make recommendations with respect to this matter.

Hon. Gerry Ritz (Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food and Minister for the Canadian Wheat Board, CPC): Mr. Speaker, with regard to (a), regarding a template service agreement, the crop logistics working group allows agriculture stakeholders, including shippers moving product in bulk and intermodal and carload shippers, to identify common interests and exchange views about issues, including service level agreements, in support of the Transport Canada facilitation process following ...[+++] from the rail freight service review.

There are some sections of the project which require investigation of their future financing requirements. These include: o the link between the two main stations in Dublin; o the Belfast - Larne section; o requirements for rolling stock; o access to ports in Dublin and Belfast; o rail freight requirements in Northern Ireland; o requirements for station upgrading and the possible role of private sector financing; - feasibilit ...[+++]y studies will be undertaken of the "peace effect" in Northern Ireland on future traffic on the whole corridor and in particular on the Dublin - Belfast section; - further studies might also be required for parts of the corridor in Northern Ireland and the possibility of adding of the Dublin - Rosslare section to the corridor; - the Cohesion Fund, the ERDF, DG VII, the EIB and the private banks represented at the seminar have undertaken to examine further financing possibilities for the missing sections or additional work to be undertaken on the corridor; - the industry and business groups represented at the seminar emphasised the importance of road transport on the Cork - Dublin - Belfast corridor.