News Releases

Please be advised of the following increases in 2015 regarding the RAC training and inspection rates.

Advocates for some of Canada’s large resource and transportation sectors today sent a letter to Canada’s Commissioner of Lobbying, Karen E. Shepherd, regarding proposed amendments to the Lobbyists’ Code of Conduct.

The Railway Association of Canada (RAC) today recognized four of its members for their outstanding contributions to rail safety. Representatives from CN, CP, VIA Rail, and The Roberval and Saguenay Railway Company accepted their awards at the association’s Rail Day event in Ottawa. The annual RAC Safety Awards encourage Canada’s railway industry to adopt safe practices and to promote awareness of rail safety, to ensure that their networks remain among the safest in the world.

While federally-regulated railway companies are mandated to have safety management systems (SMS) in place, in its latest Watchlist, the TSB called on Transport Canada (TC) to require all modes of transportation to adopt a formalized process for proactively identifying and reducing risk. Canada’s railway industry supports measures to improve safety across the transportation sector, and it is working collaboratively with TC to revise SMS regulations, and to better understand, adopt and maintain safety culture.

The Canadian Railway Hall of Fame (CRHF) is currently accepting nominations to recognize individuals, communities and technologies that have been instrumental in building Canada’s freight and passenger railway infrastructure.

The Railway Association of Canada (RAC) supports new rail safety measures announced today by Transport Minister Lisa Raitt in response to the Transportation Safety Board (TSB) report into the tragic accident in Lac-Mégantic, Que. RAC worked collaboratively with Transport Canada in addressing the TSB recommendations and its members will comply fully with all new rules.

Canada’s railways believe that more stringent tank car standards are essential to improving the safety of transporting dangerous goods by rail. In addition, the Railway Association of Canada (RAC) believes that new tank car requirements and regulations must be harmonized between Canada and the United States, to ensure the safety of cross-border shipments.

The Railway Association of Canada (RAC) again expressed its deep sympathies for the victims of the Lac-Mégantic, Que. derailment today, as the Quebec coroner released his reports into the incident.

On Friday, October 3, the RAC Dangerous Goods Team completed the delivery of its 40-hour Railway Emergency Response course at the Justice Institute of British Columbia in Maple Ridge, B.C.

The City of Montreal has been selected as the first-ever recipient of the Merrill Henderson Award for its proactive approach in identifying and planning for new residential developments in proximity to railway operations. Anie Samson, Montreal city councillor and chair of the city’s public-safety committee, accepted the award today at the 2014 Canadian Rail Summit.