Transport committee  That amount is actually attributed to the world-class tanker safety system funding. There's a total of almost $60 million of increased funding. Of that, there's about $15 million for operating resources such as the national aerial surveillance program, as well as the increased in

Transport committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. I will start and just give you a couple of highlights of what is in the supplementary estimates. I am here representing the portfolio for transport, which includes Transport Canada and Infrastructure Canada, as well as a bundle of crown corporations tha

Transport committee  The P3 agreement was reached in June 2015, and the winning consortium is already in the process of constructing the bridge project, as we speak. They've torn down one of the old portions of the bridge, and they're building what we call the jetties, the platforms they will use to

Transport committee  A portion of that money, $12.5 million, is for capital expenditures that the department is responsible for. When we entered into the contract with the P3 concessionaire, we had already negotiated all the properties that were required for the bridge project. That's a normal proces

Transport committee  We are. In some cases, it's previously used land. In effect we had to take out a whole neighbourhood on the south shore. We had to buy all the homes there. They've been torn down, and now the site is being prepared to hand over to the concessionaire for them to construct on. The

Transport committee  Yes, in effect it's contingency money, so if we don't need it, we won't spend it. It will return to the fiscal framework.

Transport committee  Transport Canada has a capital budget. We own a lot of assets across the country. We own ports, airports, other facilities where we test vehicles, and things like that. Every year we go through a priority-setting process where we look at the needs of our facilities and make sure

Transport committee  With respect to lithium batteries, they can be included in things you carry in your checked baggage, or they could be articles that are put in the cargo hold of an aircraft. It could be both scenarios. The lithium batteries are considered dangerous substances. We are a member of

Transport committee  Go ahead. Then I can supplement.

Transport committee  Under the airport capital assistance program, we fund a variety of airports across the country, and we pay for safety improvements, usually on the air side of the airport rather than in the terminal building. A lot of this work is done in airports that are in more remote location

Transport committee  They submit a plan to us. Every year we have roughly $40 million to spend and they submit applications to us. We have criteria based on what the airport has to be. They have to have, for example, more than 1,000 scheduled passengers. They have to be a certified airport. Depending

Transport committee  Some of that is for the acquisition of the right of way. That was Hydro-Québec's. When we acquire the land, we do the environmental assessments, but it's also the cost of relocating the hydro pylons out of that right of way. They have to move them, and we have to compensate them

Transport committee  It's a little bit hard. It's an estimate that we try to come up with. We know roughly what the ongoing work is, for example, on the environmental front and how much it's costing us. Some of them we can cost. Some of it is a forecast of what could come and how much we will need pe

Transport committee  Exactly.

Transport committee  It's to finish off the projects that aren't yet completed. They're already committed, but they're just being finalized.