Canada should force railways to take out enough insurance to cover damages caused by major incidents, the Canadian Senate says in a report issued after last month's deadly train disaster in Quebec.
The government of the Canadian province of Quebec has added Canadian Pacific Railway to the list of companies it says should help pay clean-up costs after an oil tanker train disaster in July.
The way the railway industry does business in Canada will be transformed by the Transportation Safety Board's investigation into the deadly train derailment that demolished the heart of the Quebec town of Lac-Megantic, TSB investigator Glen Pilonsaid on Friday.
Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway says it is on the site of the fuel train derailment in Lac-Megantic, Quebec to establish a process for the filing and handling of claims.