Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chairman, members of the committee, thank you for this opportunity to provide some comments on the policies and procedures around the provision of Temporary Resident Visas, or tourist visas. I am Daniel-Robert Gooch, president of the Canadian Airports Council. The CAC rep

Citizenship and Immigration committee  —to the United States or the European Union demonstrates a certain amount of pre-screening. We think that should be a consideration for a less complicated entry into Canada. As an example, does it make sense to treat a Chinese student studying at Harvard, who would like to visi

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We would. It's still playing itself out, but certainly these application centres are bringing the visa application process closer to our potential tourists, potential travellers. I also understand that they're serving as a bit of a check and balance against the applications the

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think there should be increased reliance on electronic measures, as David spoke to last week. I haven't experienced the Australian system, but I understand that it's much more user friendly. If the visa application centres are proving to be as useful as we believe they are, we

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Transit without visa is a great program. It's very limited in places today. There are other countries in Europe where people going from points east to points west do not require a visa to travel through an airport as they might if they were planning to stay. We currently do. We h

Transport committee  Thank you. Mr. Chairman and honourable members, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today to discuss the Canadian transportation safety regime, including safety management systems. We appreciate the opportunity to discuss this topic from a Canadian airports perspe

Transport committee  That predates my time at the organization. I will defer to my colleague. Gord, can you make a comment on that?

Transport committee  Forty.

Transport committee  The northern airports are generally operated by the territory. In southern Canada we have a model where airports have been devolved, so we have 26 airports that are national system airports, where they officially are still on federal land. They pay rent to the federal governmen

Transport committee  Generally, that is correct, yes. Mr. Nourse is going to add something in the northern context.

Transport committee  I'm not sure that we could comment on numbers that are without context. Certainly, I'll ask my colleagues on the phone if they have anything to add to that. Gentlemen...?

Transport committee  Gord or Chris, do you have anything to add on this subject?

Transport committee  If I may just add to that I would say on the airport side I would echo that comment. Transport Canada used to run airports. There was a large organization that served as a training ground for expertise in airport operations and when Transport Canada devolved airports to local air

Transport committee  Security is a different beast. At 89 airports throughout the country, screening—what you see when you're lining up as well as whole baggage screening and screening of non-passengers, which is employees essentially, the workers at airports—is conducted by the Canadian Air Transpor

Transport committee  It is not at those 89 airports with CATSA services.