Transport committee  Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for your invitation. I am pleased to be here before you today to discuss Bill S-2. Although I am sure many of you are familiar with CAA, let me begin by providing a bit of background on our organization's role in road safety. We were founded

Transport committee  I think you raise an interesting point. That may well be the case. We've stayed clear, as an association, of having an opinion one way or the other on the commercial relationships between the dealers and the factory, the OEMs. Our position has been that we wanted to get this legi

Transport committee  We can only hope that it will, of course. I'm sure George can chime in on this. He's the numbers guy a bit more than I am in terms of compliance rates. I will say as well that one of the things that isn't covered in the bill that we would hope to see the government act on down t

Transport committee  Yes. One of the reasons we think this is good legislation is because of what it says. It's also sending a signal, we hope and we think, inside the bureaucracy at Transport Canada road safety that they're valued. We hope this will be a morale boost for them, frankly, signalling to

Transport committee  I want to add that our understanding is that the department has a VIN lookup tool, except that if you go to that tool it clicks you onto the link of the automaker, and the last time we checked it had only 14 of 28 automakers on it. Our understanding is they're working to improve

Transport committee  That's a good question. I'll have to get back to you on whether BCAA offers that particular service, as we are a federation of eight independent clubs, each with its own service offerings. There's the ad portion. I honestly don't know. I will find out for you.

Transport committee  It depends on what kind of framework we're looking at. As you would know, in Bill S-2 there's some language that would enable the minister to allow AVs to be tested on Canadian roads. We're very supportive of that. We need some framework, because things should be happening righ

Transport committee  I don't have a date in mind.

Transport committee  Well, no, we wouldn't find that acceptable.

Transport committee  I wouldn't want to put an exact timeline on it. I understand the Senate committee is due to report, with any luck, by Christmas. We hope the government will take that report very seriously, as I'm sure they will, and act on some of the recommendations. That would put you in a tim

Transport committee  How interesting. There are a few things there. I think this legislation will go a fair way toward redressing an imbalance that we have right now with the United States on this. I think it would be normal business practice to address an issue in a jurisdiction where you have large

Transport committee  Thank you very much, Chair and committee members. Thank you for your interest in the subject, which is a very important one to over six million CAA members across the country. Our main issue is on the non-profit public affairs side of our operation, including road safety, the env

Transport committee  May I just add very quickly and in support of something one of my colleagues here at the table said? Communicating a sense of urgency to government on this file is very important. One of the things that's delayed it is that government likes to fight fires, and you could look at t

Transport committee  Very quickly, I'll differ slightly with my colleagues. We don't get too caught up on machinery issues at CAA. I think that the issue, as I said in response to an earlier question, absolutely needs to be elevated by the government, whether that continues to be a joint committee of

Transport committee  Sure. We believe that in the long term, autonomous vehicles will be safer. One of the questions that nobody has an answer to today is how long this adoption will take, and I would agree with my colleagues that it will be longer rather than shorter. Our view, as we indicated in ou