Under cross-examination by Harding's lawyer, Charles Shearson, Couture testified that as a more experienced colleague, Harding regularly gave him helpful pointers. Locomotive engineer Thomas Harding is one of the three former MMA employees charged with 47 counts of criminal negligence causing death in connection with the Lac-Mégantic disaster. Couture testified several of his colleagues had tried to dissuade him from using so many handbrakes when securing a train. Couture testified he was unaware MMA had a safety management system. "And when you observed the locomotive produced a large cloud of black smoke, did you keep operating the locomotive?"

Source: CBC News November 29, 2017 00:33 UTC