Transport committee  Mr. Laframboise, the government undertook to help Canada Post set up its pension fund, and we decided that we were going to reduce our contribution by $25 million per year. As a result, the Corporation will receive $75 million this year, and $50 million next year. The idea was to

Transport committee  Yes, Mr. Chair. You won't see a change in this legislation in terms of how the distribution of the members would be selected. In terms of this--

Transport committee  You will not necessarily see a change.

Transport committee  It has it regarding lands that it already owns, but it has not exercised it in the past.

Transport committee  Yes, absolutely. You were asking about funds being asked for through supplementary estimates (B) for the department in support of the Mackenzie gas pipeline project. When this project was being conceived back in 2004-05, the department anticipated an awful lot of growth in the t

Transport committee  I don't know specifically about the details of the work they were doing, but certainly I can appreciate that there's been a lot of anticipation for this project being announced. Nevertheless, companies were preparing for this and Transport Canada was supporting the regulatory fra

Transport committee  It's certainly quite possible that for the NCC to take on maintenance and ownership of those bridges we'd first have to come up with funds. We all know that bridges are expensive to maintain. If they do that, then the National Capital Commission may have some issues with respect

Transport committee  The Canada National Parks Act, under the rubric “Public consultation”, reads in subsection 12(1): The Minister shall, where applicable, provide opportunities for public participation at the national, regional and local levels, including participation by aboriginal organization

Transport committee  I'm sorry, Mr. Chair, but I do not understand the question. We have not reduced Canada Post's budget. It is a self-financed Crown Corporation. However, in its supplementary budget, it did receive an additional sum to handle the extra volume of mail in the region in which the Olym

Transport committee  You're right.

Transport committee  I could talk about the safety review conducted by Canada Post of each mailbox, of each house laneway and walkway. Canada Post will talk with residents to determine where mailboxes could best be located from a safety standpoint for their employees and of course, for customers. Ho

Transport committee  Its budget for 2010-2011 will total $1.8 billion.

Transport committee  There are a number of reasons for the changes. First of all, our real property budget will increase because we want to purchase land in the Windsor area. In addition, the way in which the department is funded to cover operational costs has changed. Airport leasing charges which w

Transport committee  I'll try to answer the questions as they were posed. In terms of what Canada Post did specifically to ensure a certain level of security of the mail coming into the Vancouver Olympics area, Canada Post would have that information. We, as a department, don't really have the speci

Official Languages committee  Mr. Nadeau, I would like to mention that the official languages champion recently published a message on our website for all department employees. He encouraged them to do just that, i.e., to communicate in the language of their choice. He indicated that senior management would b