FEDERAL – Transport Canada (TC) has launched a website seeking feedback from shippers, inspectors, manufacturers and other interested individuals about updating the federal Transportation of Dangerous Goods Regulations. Announced in a TC news release on Dec. 6, LetsTalkTransportation.ca invites input from industry stakeholders, academics and others on how to improve training in working with dangerous goods and responding to railway incidents until Feb. 28. Also encouraged to provide feedback are First Nations groups and provincial, territorial and municipal government representatives. “My personal commitment… is to advance public safety through an enhanced rail safety program and an invigorated transportation-of-dangerous-goods program. This means ensuring those who work with dangerous goods regularly, and those who must respond if something should go wrong, receive the most comprehensive training possible,” Transport Minister Marc Garneau said in a media statement. “I hope that Canadians from communities across the country take part in the discussion on the website.” Garneau plans to attend the inaugural meeting of the Steering Committee on First Responder Training – a group of stakeholders that aims to help develop a national flammable-liquids curriculum for first responders – on Dec. 14, TC stated.