Public Safety committee  If I might just add to that, it was striking to me that at the auto summit we participated in, at a table even bigger than this one, everybody around the table said, “Mea culpa, we have something to do,” including CAA. As I said in my remarks, we need to do better consumer educat

Public Safety committee  I'll turn to my colleague in a moment: This is what he does for a living, especially in recent months and years. It shouldn't be up to your house insurance to take care of faulty door locks because people who build homes can't be bothered to have proper locks on the front doors.

Public Safety committee  We don't think so. We can't turn back the clock either. Do social media platforms have a harmful effect on teens? Yes, but that's the world we are living in. The same goes for the technology used in vehicles. Things have to advance. Consider that iPhones use two-factor authentic

Public Safety committee  Absolutely. There are other jurisdictions acting on this as well. To your point, if we don't or if we're slower, we will simply see more car theft in our country than in other jurisdictions. I think, again, that it's a very good argument to be moving as quickly as we can. My onl

Public Safety committee  I would like to turn to my colleague Elliott in just a moment on this. He's a bit more knowledgeable than I am. I will make couple of observations. I think what gets stolen is what's most valuable to potential buyers. I think that our criminal gangs put more effort into figurin

Public Safety committee  Well, it's interesting; we understand when we look back and when we do research that there was a lot of auto theft in this country 10 or 15 years ago. I think a lot of emphasis was put on it. Since then, that emphasis has gone. That worked, and then the emphasis went away. I thi

Public Safety committee  Yes, we absolutely have.

Public Safety committee  The opening line was that they don't really do export inspections; they worry about imports. That's fair enough, but I think the clear message from us—from this committee, I would hope, and, I believe, from some government officials, at least—has been that this is not good enough

Public Safety committee  It'll be me, Mr. Chair. Thank you very much. Good afternoon. Mr. Chair and honourable members, thank you for inviting us to share our views on the effort to combat auto theft. My name is Ian Jack. I'm the vice-president of public affairs for CAA's national office here in Ottaw

Transport committee  The only comment I would make is that there's the APPR and then there are changes in the system more broadly to make it work better for everybody, including passengers. I certainly don't know that I'd be looking under the APPR for the answers. I think the APPR has enough problems

Transport committee  That's why one of our recommendations is an explicit power for the minister to direct in extraordinary circumstances. Again, it's to have that stick in the background, so that when he or she convenes a meeting of the players, they know that it's more than just a chat and they're

Transport committee  It's a very good question. If I could go back to your anecdote, I would point out that it highlights another issue with the regulator and with the system as it is set up, which is that you have to be a passenger on a plane to make a complaint. I can't imagine that any of the pe

Transport committee  If I can just say, the point of higher AMPs is not to raise money for the government. It's to incent the airlines to do a better job in the first place. We shouldn't assume that there would be tens and hundreds of millions of fines against the carriers and that the cost would, in

Transport committee  I agree with Mr. Lawford. The Air Passenger Protection Regulations came into force three months before the COVID‑19 pandemic, so the circumstances were anything but normal. Things still aren't back to normal, but we've been getting closer to that for six to nine months, and in t

Transport committee  On whether it's legislation or regulation, I won't offer an opinion. That's for the lawyers, I think, but yes, somebody in government has to do that. As I also said earlier, the carriers have all this information. They're choosing right now not to make it public. Somebody's goi