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The crash of the Humboldt Broncos bus at a nondescript intersection in rural Saskatchewan highlights gaps in the federal government response to an event that has deeply touched the soul of the nation.

Beyond the unprecedented outpouring of support to the victims and their families, it has become clear that no agency of the government of Canada has a mandate to conduct an in-depth safety investigation of this crash, or of any other road crash, no matter how tragic its outcomes are.

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A technical safety investigation differs from the investigations conducted by the police or the RCMP in that it would not focus on the assignment of blame or criminal charges. Rather, it would gather factual information both from the crash scene and from a history of crashes in other jurisdictions, and conduct an in-depth analysis by a multidisciplinary expert team, with the overall objective of finding causes and contributing factors.