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Transport committee Thank you, Mr. Chair, I will indeed. Thank you for the opportunity to appear this morning before the committee. As the chair has already noted, my name is Jeffery Hutchinson. I'm the director general of national strategies for the Canadian Coast Guard. I'm joined today by Mr. D
November 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Jeffery Hutchinson
Transport committee That's correct.
November 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Jeffery Hutchinson
Transport committee In fact, incidents at sea can be reported in different ways. It might be that we get that information through our MCTS centre, our marine communications centre. In some cases, something happening on the water evolves over time, so it comes in as search and rescue first and turns
November 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Jeffery Hutchinson
Transport committee No, that's every day.
November 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Jeffery Hutchinson
Transport committee I don't have with me the regional breakdown of those incidents. I can tell you that the vast majority of these incidents are very small, such as a yacht that has run aground and that kind of thing. We're not talking about three tanker-sized incidents a day. We're generally talkin
November 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Jeffery Hutchinson
Transport committee I'm going to ask my colleague Mr. Pelletier to also weigh in on this because of this operational background. The Simushir event put into motion a lot of different response activities, and I think that's important to note. First, that event actually started as a search and rescu
November 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Jeffery Hutchinson
Transport committee Yes, certainly. We have partner organizations that we refer to generally as the Coast Guard Auxiliary. There's one national umbrella organization, and you have regional organizations that operate within that. Essentially, what we're talking about are volunteers who aid in the s
November 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Jeffery Hutchinson
Transport committee There's a parallel that could be drawn there, and there's a parallel that might be drawn with a volunteer fire department.
November 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Jeffery Hutchinson
Transport committee We're watching the situation very carefully, as you can imagine. There's a lot of talk about traffic in the north, but in fact the amount of traffic through the Northwest Passage is still minimal. To my knowledge, there was one cargo vessel that transited the Northwest Passage th
November 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Jeffery Hutchinson
Transport committee The risks on the B.C. coast are different, there's no doubt. I'll start by talking about one that doesn't exist. For example, you don't have ice in Port Metro to deal with, which changes the scenario significantly. I think the two factors for Vancouver that are most significant a
November 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Jeffery Hutchinson
Transport committee Pardon me, but I just want to make sure I heard you correctly. Did you say comparing to Rotterdam?
November 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Jeffery Hutchinson
Transport committee I would be a little bit—
November 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Jeffery Hutchinson
Transport committee Yes.
November 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Jeffery Hutchinson
Transport committee I don't have precise figures in front of me. I don't want to guess at this. I would rather provide you information that is more specific. Certainly there are busier ports in the world. Shanghai comes to mind as perhaps the world's busiest port and one of the more complex becaus
November 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Jeffery Hutchinson
Transport committee I can say that the coast guard continues to meet its service standards across the west coast, those changes notwithstanding
November 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Jeffery Hutchinson