Transport committee  There is a precedent here in Quebec. I have a document about a program they put in place for the trucking industry. Claude, and I think David, talked about the accelerated CCA for the newer trucks, along with the LNG, but in addition to that, they put in place a program in 2009 d

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  I very briefly described our program. There's the core, with the sanitation, pest control, all the prerequisite programs, and the standard operating procedures, as well as some commodity-specific modules, depending on what's being carried. One of them is on live animals. But most

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  You're absolutely right. Our relationship with CFIA during the development of the program was very positive. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada came in later as well. I'm not so sure that I would say we're involved with any sort of incentive programs, but certainly the federal go

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  As I've said, there really aren't that many regulations on trucking itself, so what we're responding to are shipper demands, to a large extent, for food safety. That's really one of the primary drivers for why we developed this HACCP system. We didn't want to be faced with differ

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  Do you want to answer that, John?

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  I'm actually not familiar with what exactly they've been saying, Mr. Miller, but--

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  Okay. I mean, I can imagine, but does it pertain to the safety of the food? Probably not. What we're talking about is.... There are animal welfare codes that the carriers have to comply with in order to move livestock, and that's what carriers adhere to. Are they perfect? Could t

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  It's not insignificant. I've spoken to our service deliverer, Kasar Canada, and they've indicated that costs can run to easily $50,000 for a trucking company to put a program in place. And then there are ongoing costs as well for audits, for example, and the cost of those audits

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  I'm just not familiar enough with animal transportation to be giving you an answer on that. I'm sorry.

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  One of the things that I talked about in the competitiveness study last week was the importance of electronic manifests for moving trucks across the border. The U.S. already has them in place, and Canada should be rolling its out this year. That will be of big benefit, in terms o

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  When I say that costs have to be passed along, in the scheme of things, those are pretty minor. If you take a look at a trucking company and its operations, the big expenses are fuel and labour and equipment. So to put in place a HACCP program would just be a fraction of the over

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  As I said to the committee last week, and you were there, Mr. Easter, programs aren't free. We were talking about security programs last week. To put in place a HACCP program is not free either. I'm not sure what Erb Transport paid to do their program and what they pay on an on

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  Mr. Easter, John and I were having a chat at lunchtime about regulation. The fact of the matter is that there really isn't that much direct regulation of trucking specifically on food safety. Most of the regulation applies to the producers, to the distributors, and at the retail

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  Good evening, Mr. Chairman and subcommittee members. My name is Ron Lennox. I'm a vice-president with the Canadian Trucking Alliance, a federation of Canada's provincial trucking associations representing some 4,500 carriers and trucking industry suppliers nationwide. CTA is a m

Agriculture committee  The cost would simply be passed through to the shippers of goods. We handle our fuel charges through a surcharge; as the price of fuel goes up and down, people who use our services pay more or less for those goods to be shipped. My feeling is that if there were a carbon tax, it w