Source: Kimberly Ivany, Harvey Cashore, Bob McKeown, CBC News, November 4, 2018
Previous transport minister told fatalities ‘only a matter of time’ on buses without seatbelts.
An internal Transport Canada investigation into a fatal crash in 2001 concluded that coach buses without seatbelts may put passengers at “unnecessary risk” of injuries, yet the document was kept hidden for years until The Fifth Estate recently uncovered it using the Access to Information Act.
Instead, the federal regulatory department continued to insist publicly that seatbelts were not necessary in coach buses.
