Question Period: Rail Safety
Channel: Linda Duncan
Date: 2016-05-30

The Transportation Safety Board is recording more accidents, runaway trains, and other serious, preventable accidents, yet Transport Canada is delaying tougher measures that could stop not only disasters like Lac-Mégantic but 500 runaway trains over the past two decades. Transport inspectors and rail workers have called for strengthened controls and stepped-up inspection and enforcement. So far there has been nothing. When will the minister start talking and start taking action to make our rail system safe?