Wendy A. Tadros was the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSBC) Chairperson from 2006 to 2014.
[1] As chairperson, Tadros was a senior appointee of the Government of Canada, and was responsible for accident investigations that may or may not have included fatalities, such as the tragedy of Lac-Megantic, of which Tadros stated that the "investigation will take months,"[2] and warned against blaming the Lac-Megantic tragedy on one person.
[3] She was quoted as saying that the Lac-Megantic derailment "may well be the most devastating rail accident in Canadian history.
A statement of the duties of the TSBC was provided by her on 13 June 2006 to the Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Communities.
"[7] She noted a failure of the safety regulations for the Transport of Dangerous Goods (TDG)[8] in report R02W0063, issued 2004, that "Since the train originated and would have terminated in Canada, and the DG products were not listed in Schedule I of the TDG regulations, neither the shipper nor CN was required to have an emergency response plan.