Transport Committee on March 21st, 2018

Evidence of meeting #95 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 funding.

A video is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Interim Estimates 2018-19: Vote 1 under Canadian Air Transport Security Authority, Vote 1 under Canadian Transportation Agency, Votes 1, 5, 10, 15 and 20 under Department of Transport, Vote 1 under Marine Atlantic Inc., Votes 1, 5, and 10 under Office of Infrastructure of Canada, Vote 1 under The Federal Bridge Corporation Limited, Vote 1 under The Jacques-Cartier and Champlain Bridges Inc., Vote 1 under VIA Rail Canada Inc. and Vote 1 under Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority

Committee Business

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Michael Keenan Deputy Minister, Department of Transport

Kelly Gillis Deputy Minister, Infrastructure and Communities, Office of Infrastructure of Canada

5:20 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Judy Sgro

Yes.

5:20 p.m.

Conservative

Ron Liepert Conservative Calgary Signal Hill, AB

Maybe I haven't read my mail, but have you sent a witness list out yet for the hearings next week?

5:20 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Judy Sgro

Do you mean the ones for the automated vehicles?

5:20 p.m.

Conservative

Ron Liepert Conservative Calgary Signal Hill, AB

Yes.

5:20 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Judy Sgro

Yes. That was done some time ago. I think we had them when we had our witnesses. That's already done for the next two weeks for those meetings.

5:20 p.m.

Conservative

Ron Liepert Conservative Calgary Signal Hill, AB

We have that list, then.

5:20 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Judy Sgro

Yes. The clerk has the list.

5:20 p.m.

Conservative

Ron Liepert Conservative Calgary Signal Hill, AB

I wanted to raise the issue regarding what happened in Arizona last week. Are there witnesses who are going to talk about safety or unforeseen—I don't know what the wording would be. In light of what happened in Arizona last week, do we have witnesses who can maybe shed some light on how to solve that issue?

5:20 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Judy Sgro

If we share the witness list that we have put together...the clerk has been indicating to them that we wanted to go to the future. We know what the Senate report said. It was great, but we wanted to move beyond that. I'm sure they'll come prepared to respond to the accident that happened last week.

5:20 p.m.

Conservative

Ron Liepert Conservative Calgary Signal Hill, AB

Thank you.

5:20 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Judy Sgro

At least, I hope they will.

Regarding the witness list, then, for our infrastructure study, we need to have them by March 29, which is next Friday. Can you please submit your witness lists for that study?

Thank you all very much. The meeting is adjourned.