Finance committee  I believe I have less than a minute to do that.

Finance committee  Mr. Chair, I'm not sure I can do that in less than a minute, but what we mean is that we don't have a legislative framework right now in Canada that would permit the creation of geographic foreign trade zones in Canada. We have what some would say is a suite of programs that allo

Finance committee  Yes, absolutely, I can. I'd be happy to help you out on that. You may be from Montreal and you're not going to walk to Boston, but you may head south to Plattsburgh. If you look at the Plattsburgh website, Mr. Chair and other committee members, you'll see that Plattsburgh actual

Finance committee  You're welcome.

Finance committee  The business environment in the United States, in developing the airport, is very, very different. The Plattsburgh airport used to be a military airport and they upgraded to a civilian airport, or aerodrome, as we say in the business, solely on the backs of the U.S. taxpayers.

Finance committee  Mr. Laforest, that is a good question and one that is often put to us. The simple answer is yes. Several of our members told government representatives that the elimination of rent would reduce the airline companies' costs, which would allow them to reduce the cost of tickets for

Finance committee  Good morning, Mr. Chair. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to present our point of view on your debate and perhaps provide input for your recommendations to the Minister of Finance. Mr. Chairman and committee members, you should have available to y

Transport committee  Airport authorities have a mandate to be economic engines for their community, and their mandate says “thou shalt be self-sufficient”, which they are, but they also add to Ottawa's coffers. If you're going to introduce a major competitor between Quebec City and Montreal on to Tor

Transport committee  Yes, it can be a great help. You may want to be careful about making an assumption, sir, that there will not be a necessity to have some kind of security screening on board a high-speed rail train. I don't know if there will or will not be, but you might want to be careful about

Transport committee  That's absolutely correct. We lose 1.7 million passengers to Buffalo. It's an awful lot of people.

Transport committee  Right now, if memory serves me right, if you look at Air Canada, because their regional feed is provided by Air Canada Jazz, I believe Air Canada Jazz has about 55% of the regional market. I can't recall what WestJet's is, so perhaps you may be impacting the regional feed between

Transport committee  No, I'm not.

Transport committee  It would be. I think a lot of the air travel in Canada continues to be domestically based. We have seen, as a result of the economy obviously, a significant drop in transborder travel between Canada and the United States, and international travel has come down in many parts of

Transport committee  The short answer is no. The investment of $9.5 billion has been made by the Canadian Airports Council members with the idea in mind that they can handle growth. Toronto can handle about 10 million more passengers--that may be stretching it a little. I know that some airports try

Transport committee  Canada's airports have invested, since 1992, $9.5 billion across Canada.