Transport committee  Mr. Chair, if I may respond to the first question, I believe the question was whether we could guarantee that the jobs located in the three operation and maintenance centres in Montreal, Mississauga, and Winnipeg will be protected. I would like to confirm that the Air Canada Pu

Transport committee  Mr. Chair, if I may respond, one of the obligations of the air policy team at Transport Canada is to assess the competitiveness of the air sector, and Canada actually has a very good track record in these professions, in these areas. As the minister said earlier, we're confident

Transport committee  These are technical matters, and I think what we'll have to do is commit to provide a response after we've gone back and checked the report and verified the information.

Transport committee  At this point, we're still at the preliminary stages. We've got a study under way looking at the engineering questions and also at whether this piece of infrastructure should reside with the Department of Public Works or whether it would be better handled as part of Port Metro Va

Transport committee  Thank you. Mr. Chair. We actually provide an annual subsidy to the Province of British Columbia for the ferry from the mainland to Vancouver Island. It's partly a longstanding arrangement and it is in fact, as you suggest, in recognition of the importance of the connection betwe

Transport committee  I'd be happy to provide additional information, but it is based on a longstanding agreement between the federal government and the Province of British Columbia. There are provisions in the agreement for annual adjustments to reflect inflation.

Transport committee  Thank you. I would just confirm what the deputy has said. There is a significant amount of investment under the gateway initiative. As you may know, the province and the federal government have worked closely together with local municipalities and with industry to identify the p

Agriculture committee  Mr. Chair, I wasn't present at the earlier discussion, but we'll try to answer that question. I'm going to ask Mr. Doran to comment on the question.

Agriculture committee  I'm happy to speak to the committee, Mr. Chair, but I'm also very comfortable if you wish to continue with your questions.

Transport committee  Mr. Chair, the department is working closely with CBSA on a whole host of issues involved with the border. We are in regular communication. That doesn't mean we're always party to every element of what the agency is doing, but we're working closely on the DRIC process and on issu

Agriculture committee  Clearly we're talking to both railways, and we're very mindful of the complexity of the situation. There are issues around car supply. We are also regularly hearing service concerns on the part of shippers right across the country, including grain shippers. We're going to have

Agriculture committee  One of the areas identified at the time of the Estey and Kroeger reviews a few years ago was cycle times. Although we have seen improvements recently, as has been mentioned this morning, the cycle times of today are nowhere near the targeted improvements that were identified when

Agriculture committee  We're in a negotiation right now, and there may be differing views as to the lifetimes of some of these cars.

Agriculture committee  I'm going to ask Madam Borges to answer that, Mr. Easter.

Agriculture committee  That's one of the questions we'll consider in the negotiations. We've just started talking about the future of the hopper cars. We have to think of the future. We're confident that most of the hopper cars will be available for a number of years. As my colleague mentioned, some o