Evidence of meeting #33 for Industry, Science and Technology in the 43rd Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was regulatory.
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Executive Director, Regulatory Policy and Cooperation Directorate, Regulatory Affairs Sector, Treasury Board Secretariat
That would depend on each set of regulations.
Executive Director, Regulatory Policy and Cooperation Directorate, Regulatory Affairs Sector, Treasury Board Secretariat
Some regulations can be one line; some can be hundreds of pages.
Conservative
Pierre Poilievre Conservative Carleton, ON
How many regulations do we have? You said there are 3,000 sets of regulations. What is the total number of individual regulations?
Executive Director, Regulatory Policy and Cooperation Directorate, Regulatory Affairs Sector, Treasury Board Secretariat
I don't have that count, Madam Chair.
Conservative
Pierre Poilievre Conservative Carleton, ON
The Treasury Board Secretariat is supposed to be watching all this and is supposed to be the guard dog. I don't know if you can hear my dog barking at the front door right now, but you guys are supposed to be the guard dog, just like him. I wish he'd bark less, but anyway, I hope you can find out how many regulations Canadians have to follow and how much they're paying, and report it back to the committee for the purpose of this study.
Thank you very much for your testimony.
Madam Waterous, we have very little time, but as I understand it you built a parking lot; you want to build a gondola so you can connect people from some distance away, right into the heart of the town of Banff. Is that right?
Managing Partner, Norquay Ski and Sightseeing Resort
Yes. Our project has many components. One is the return of passenger rail; one is aerial transit from the station up to our hill; one is intercept parking, and we're working with our community and three levels of government to do other things more broadly that help with the mobility of visitors throughout the park in a green manner.
Conservative
Pierre Poilievre Conservative Carleton, ON
Just to keep it to the tangibles, you built this 500-car lot, and you want to be able to transport people from that lot to the village of Banff without having to bring their cars into the town. Parks Canada has not approved that gondola?
Managing Partner, Norquay Ski and Sightseeing Resort
No, it has not. With respect to the intercept parking lot, we are now asking for Parks to provide free shuttles to take people from our lot to points of interest throughout the park, so they don't need to rent a car once they get here by train and/or park their car in the lot.
Conservative
Pierre Poilievre Conservative Carleton, ON
You also want rail connection between the Calgary airport and Banff. Is that right?
Conservative
Pierre Poilievre Conservative Carleton, ON
You're willing to invest your own money to make that happen.
Conservative
Managing Partner, Norquay Ski and Sightseeing Resort
Parks is not involved in the decision-making there. It's other agencies like the Government of Alberta and the Canada Infrastructure Bank, where we're getting some of our funding, etc.
Conservative
Pierre Poilievre Conservative Carleton, ON
What approvals are you waiting for or have you not received from Parks Canada? Could you summarize them?
Managing Partner, Norquay Ski and Sightseeing Resort
The gondola is going to be resubmitted; we're waiting. We want to build another 900-stall intercept lot on the other side of the tracks for more intercept parking, so we can move Banff to a car-free national park. That's the ultimate goal.
Conservative
Pierre Poilievre Conservative Carleton, ON
You want to make Banff car-free and emissions-free—exactly what we're told the government wants.
Managing Partner, Norquay Ski and Sightseeing Resort
You got it.
Conservative
Pierre Poilievre Conservative Carleton, ON
But Parks Canada—of all departments—is standing in the way. How ironic.
Conservative
Managing Partner, Norquay Ski and Sightseeing Resort
We're looking for some partnership.
Conservative
Pierre Poilievre Conservative Carleton, ON
Agreed. You should have it. And thanks for what you're doing.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Sherry Romanado
My apologies. Not only is Parks Canada in the way, but so is the chair. The chair is going to move to the next speaker.
MP Erskine-Smith, you have the last five-minute round.