e-4499 (Transportation)
- Keywords
- Canadian National Railway Company
- Kingston
- Rail transport safety
- Rail transportation and railways
Original language of petition: English
Petition to the Government of Canada
- On 5 May, 2023, six cars of a twelve-car CN freight train derailed in central Kingston, Ontario and a rail bridge collapsed;
- The train traverses the CN Cataraqui Industrial Spur through a conservation area and according to CN, carried adipic acid and hexamethylenediamine used in the production of nylon at the Invista Canada plant;
- Two of the train cars entered the Little Cataraqui Creek, which is part of the marshland conservation area;
- To create a causeway to access the site of the derailment, tonnes of gravel were dumped; and
- At least two other derailments occurred on March 4 and March 25, 2020 which also disrupted traffic due to the closure of a major thoroughfare in Kingston.
- Open for signature
- July 14, 2023, at 2:19 p.m. (EDT)
- Closed for signature
- November 11, 2023, at 2:19 p.m. (EDT)