Richard Cannings at the Transport, Infrastructure and Communities Committee

On January 28th, 2021. See this statement in context.

January 28th, 2021 / 5:20 p.m.

NDP

Richard Cannings NDP South Okanagan—West Kootenay, BC

Thank you.

I'd like to go back to Mr. Best.

You talked about NavCan and that issue. As I understand, NavCan is basically funded by the amount of traffic at any given airport. It's been suffering, as everyone in the industry has been in the last year. It seems to have a mandate for safety, but it obviously doesn't have a mandate for regional services and maintaining the industry.

Do we need a new funding model for NavCan or a new oversight model that gives the government some real say in ensuring that it remains operating in these airports so that we can recover quickly in situations like this?

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