Transport committee  I can start on this one. Thanks for the question. Actually, this goes back to an ask that a number of the railway's customers made, going back to Bill C-49, which was for for the agency to go out and investigate these types of matters independently. Minister Garneau put some con

Transport committee  Assuming I understood your question correctly, transportation is not the only threat to investment in Canada. There's also the overall tax system. There's accessing the fibre that we need to access in order to make the products we make. There is a lot of work going on right now o

Transport committee  Oh, perfect.

Transport committee  I think we have to be careful about taking business for granted. The industries you see represented here at the table today generate a lot of revenue that helps pay for a lot of really important social programs across Canada, but we are in a global marketplace and we are up again

Transport committee  I'll start. I'll go back to the announcement by Minister Bains on Monday of this week about his work on resources for the future. He called on industry leaders to get the leaders from the transportation providers and the users together and to not let them go away until the prob

Transport committee  This really comes back to the vision point that I was trying to make in my remarks earlier. Probably the biggest pain point that we have right now is right here at the port of Vancouver. Once you get near Vancouver, it becomes a bottleneck and it slows down. Why are we not invest

Transport committee  We're desperate to find people to drive trucks. Conceivably, we should have an easier time with the new folks who are coming to Canada. Some of them, conceivably, would want to drive a truck and start to pay for their living that way. Why can't we make it easier for some of those

Transport committee  I can go first. In the case of CP, the service has been better than it was. CN is continuing to struggle. I'm sure they talked about all the numbers that we saw very nicely advertised in The Hill Times this morning when they were here. As I said in my remarks, I acknowledge t

Transport committee  I'll focus on the service. Let's say that for the last three or four months, the fulfillment rates have been basically 60% of all the cars that are ordered and show up. What about that 40%? That's revenue that's not being generated for those communities that work in those mills.

Transport committee  Unfortunately, that doesn't work effectively enough in the real world, and I think the biggest threat is to investment in Canada. We have a lot of CEOs at our boardroom table now who have operations on both sides of the border, and oftentimes—too often now—when they're investing

Transport committee  Thanks so much for the question. For us, costs and service are both concerns. We actually asked for the same thing that Michael outlined in his presentation to be in Bill C-49, but the amendments we were asking for did not come through. I'll let you know that right now, in our

Transport committee  Yes, with pleasure.

Transport committee  Good afternoon, Madam Chair and members of the committee. Thanks very much for having me here on behalf of the members of the Forest Products Association of Canada, or FPAC. FPAC is the voice of Canadian wood, pulp and paper producers nationally and internationally. The forest p

Finance committee  I wouldn't say it's a crash. There's been a little dip in the prices in the last couple of weeks, but it's not a crash. We're not hitting the panic button yet. We're not yet in for a full correction like we were back in 2007, but that is the nature of our business. It's very cycl

Finance committee  Oil and gas are a bit different from forest products. I don't think trucking is really for the volumes you need to ship. Correct me, if I'm wrong.