International Trade committee  Yes, I think I can say that there are lineups in CATSA. To me, as I said earlier, hassle-free is the flow through the whole airport. One departure bottleneck is certainly the security screening process. Another one is certainly in the arrival process. Sometimes we also have immig

International Trade committee  I think as one of my key customers in travel; all of you probably travel through my airport quite a bit. I think certainly the most common point where people encounter an issue is obviously security screening. That's the first point. That's harder to resolve than other areas.

International Trade committee  I think the best way is more direct flights and more connections to more destinations. I think the market there is huge. The propensity to travel there in five years' time is going to go from 0.5 to 1. That's 1.2 billion trips, of which 200 million will be going outside China. Th

International Trade committee  Well, when I look at mass transportation, it's not just for the airport alone. I think we need to improve mass transit. That's why I say government policy has to encourage improvement of mass transportation so we can take some of the cars off the road, which will allow the roadwa

International Trade committee  At this point, Pearson itself is not a slot-constrained airport. Obviously it does have some issues at the very peak hours but otherwise we have capacity. I think there is capacity at other airports. Taking China as an example, Beijing has a current airport that is handling 85 mi

International Trade committee  Oh, okay.

International Trade committee  Thank you.

International Trade committee  I could maybe correct that. There is public transit today at Pearson. The Toronto Transit Commission has a bus that comes to the airport.

International Trade committee  You're talking about the train type of operation.

International Trade committee  As far as I understand, the Union Pearson Express will be starting operation at the airport in early May of this year. It will provide a direct connection between the airport and downtown Toronto. That will be in operation this year.

International Trade committee  As I mentioned earlier, we do about 500,000 tonnes of cargo a year. We project that to probably grow in 20 years time to over 758,000 tonnes. Again, I think there is a lot of opportunity for that sector, for the simple reason that what we're finding in the world today is dedicate

International Trade committee  I think you're correct. I think we carry all sorts, again anywhere from.... I was assuring a shipper from Halifax about a month ago when he said, we just sold in one day through one of the Internet sites 5,000 lobsters to Shanghai. Can you assure me that the lobster will go throu

International Trade committee  It is not an easy answer, and not because I don't want to answer. A lot of times airport charges in different parts of the world are based on different premises. It may be best for me to explain how we set up our airport charges. We try to set it based on the costs to deliver o

International Trade committee  That's the charge or the tax that the Ontario provincial government put into the budget. I understand that it is going to be increased over a four-year period. Certainly that's a purview of a government; that's a taxation policy. We are working both with other airports in Ontari

International Trade committee  We have the ability, and as you can see in our submission, we're forecasting that we'll be at over 60 million passengers at Pearson by 2030. We have the capacity to handle that volume of passengers and the aircraft movements. But again, we've been finding out recently that even