Evidence of meeting #136 for Transport, Infrastructure and Communities in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was bus.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Judy Sgro
Are we all in favour of holding off further discussion and putting in a 15-minute block at the end of our Tuesday meeting, if Mr. Kmiec can come and speak to it? We'll all try to put our heads around it and see if there is a way to make that work.
Would that be all right? Would everybody be in agreement with that? Okay.
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Conservative
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Judy Sgro
We'll go back to Mr. Benedetto.
We have four minutes. Does anybody have any questions for Mr. Benedetto?
Mr. Kmiec, you have 44 seconds left.
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Conservative
Tom Kmiec Conservative Calgary Shepard, AB
Since I used up so much time, I'll give it to my colleagues on the government caucus side.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Judy Sgro
Everybody at transportation works really well.
Gagan, do you have a question?
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Liberal
Gagan Sikand Liberal Mississauga—Streetsville, ON
I sure do.
Thanks for returning to our committee. I was at Nav Canada, at their facility at Pearson. My riding is right next to it. They were showing me how Aireon is going to work, because I guess they have a share in Aireon. It's pretty exciting stuff. Can drones be fitted with the technology that Aireon uses?
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Chief Executive Officer, Drone Delivery Canada
We've spent the past several years developing technology. For us, it was all about getting regulatory approvals to do this. Our system is called Flyte. I'm not 100% sure what Aireon has built, but ours has been tested. It's been proven that it works.
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Chief Executive Officer, Drone Delivery Canada
It's called Flyte. We flew in active flight paths.
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Liberal
Gagan Sikand Liberal Mississauga—Streetsville, ON
Okay. You mentioned the word “dimension”, which I find pretty interesting. After seeing how the screens work in tracking the planes, I wonder, wouldn't those screens get overwhelmed, because drones are small and there are hundreds of them? How would you monitor them?
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Chief Executive Officer, Drone Delivery Canada
An air traffic control system is what we built. It's happening around the world. Canada is not unique. The reality is that Canada is actually leading in this space today.
It's a matter of risk mitigation. We work on predefined flight paths versus having a drone fly rogue. It's a railway in the sky. Think of putting tracks in the air and you're flying to and from, back and forth, all day long. There's a lot of technology that has been incorporated to mitigate the risk.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Judy Sgro
All right.
Thank you all very much.
Mr. Jeneroux, we have one minute left.
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Conservative
Matt Jeneroux Conservative Edmonton Riverbend, AB
Just before you adjourn the meeting, can I confirm that we have the minister confirmed for April 11?
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Judy Sgro
April 11 is Minister Champagne for 90 minutes, and at a later date we have Minister Garneau. We have both of them.
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Liberal
Vance Badawey Liberal Niagara Centre, ON
That's the second time you've asked that question. You'd better have a whole slew of different questions.
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Conservative
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Judy Sgro
April 11 is the date.
Thank you very much. I'm sorry for the interruption. I'm glad you had a chance to come back. If committee members have any additional questions, they can reach you directly.