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Transport committee  We would be tremendously supportive of co-operating, collaborating in any way possible. I think what's really important is that it needs to be driven by hard evidence. Most federal infrastructure funding today is delivered based on local priorities, and local governments are obviously best equipped to identify them, but a very small sliver is based on the most significant projects in the country, some of which may skew to certain regions of the country more than others.

May 14th, 2019Committee meeting

Ryan Greer

Transport committee  I don't know what the precise impact would be, and I think some of the other witnesses would have a better idea. As we're hearing, our transportation system is the circulatory system of our economy. Where we have only air access, or we have limited road access, the consequences are severe.

May 14th, 2019Committee meeting

Ryan Greer

Transport committee  At the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, we have spent a lot of time over the past several years talking about the challenges with air travel competitiveness. There's generally been a reluctance from the federal government to look at what ticket cost is composed of, what some of the federally imposed costs on air travel prices are and what that means for travel, tourism and people.

May 14th, 2019Committee meeting

Ryan Greer

Transport committee  The chambers of commerce across the country have worked with various regional organizations that are looking at specific gateways and corridors. Obviously, there's a lot of work in the Lower Mainland through the Greater Vancouver Gateway Council and others. We participated in that work.

May 14th, 2019Committee meeting

Ryan Greer

Transport committee  Sure. Beyond Preclearance was started about a year and a half ago. It's co-chaired by the Vancouver Airport Authority and the Pacific NorthWest Economic Region on the other side of the border. It has members in Canada and the U.S.—various organizations and companies—and it's basically built around taking what we had with Beyond the Border and figuring out what the next evolution is of Canada-U.S. border policy.

May 14th, 2019Committee meeting

Ryan Greer

Transport committee  I have a couple of comments. On fighting climate change, I think that anytime we can increase the fluidity of our supply chains, there will be less congestion, fewer trucks sitting in traffic and fewer regular commuters stuck in traffic at rail crossings and the like. Improving the fluidity of all of our trade corridors can help reduce congestion.

May 14th, 2019Committee meeting

Ryan Greer

Transport committee  Sure. Some of those are other policy resolutions that the Canadian chambers and boards of trade have passed. One is linked to the need for a pan-territorial transportation strategy. Obviously, the need for infrastructure far exceeds the amount of funding that's available in the north.

May 14th, 2019Committee meeting

Ryan Greer

Transport committee  Thank you, Chair and committee members, for inviting the Canadian Chamber of Commerce to take part in your study on the establishment of a Canadian transportation and logistics strategy. Unsurprisingly, goods and people movement affects nearly every chamber member amongst our network of 200,000-plus members, many of whom have already appeared before you on this study.

May 14th, 2019Committee meeting

Ryan Greer

Industry committee  I would just add, in agreement with all of those, that the chamber is releasing a report next week on the need to modernize our tax system. I think simplifying and modernizing the tax system itself would be a big help. One of the other things we're going to recommend in the report is to provide small companies with a specialized case option to assist them with their unique issues.

February 5th, 2019Committee meeting

Ryan Greer

Industry committee  Yes. Principally, if you're going to impose costs on companies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, carbon pricing is an efficient way to do it. We've always said that needs to be accompanied by a reduction in the regulatory burden and controls placed on those companies, if those are determined to be a less efficient way to do so.

February 5th, 2019Committee meeting

Ryan Greer

Industry committee  There is no target associated with carbon pricing specifically.

February 5th, 2019Committee meeting

Ryan Greer

Industry committee  It's challenging, because at the same time as there are other rules being amended—issues such as the clean fuel standard and new methane regulations, which will impose very high costs on members and life-cycle accounting of fuel—there are a lot of unknowns and uncertainty. A lot of the focus has been on trying to understand what those costs will be, in addition to carbon pricing.

February 5th, 2019Committee meeting

Ryan Greer

Industry committee  There are a couple of things. First, I think this goes to what Laura was discussing, in terms of regulation in and regulation out. Without an accurate measure, it's incredibly difficult to determine where and how we're trending, other than what we hear anecdotally from our members, or through surveys, such as what the CFIB does.

February 5th, 2019Committee meeting

Ryan Greer

Industry committee  Yes, absolutely. I think the ongoing Patented Medicine Prices Review Board regulations are a perfect example of this. The department has come out with regulations. It says that the objective is to lower drug prices. It presents the analysis that underpins that. It went to industry and asked for industry feedback.

February 5th, 2019Committee meeting

Ryan Greer

Industry committee  First, I think Minister Brison and Treasury Board deserve a tremendous amount of credit for what was in the fall economic statement and their work to get that in there. Now it all comes down to implementation. These are promises, and now we'll see how these are fulfilled. We think some of these could be real game changers.

February 5th, 2019Committee meeting

Ryan Greer