Transport committee  No, I don’t think you are going too far. I think the objective is to have a safe and secure system. The standards to be reached are explained in the legislation, for example, on aeronautic and railway safety. But the objective we are trying to meet is for transportation to be saf

Transport committee  In other legislation, yes.

Transport committee  What we were trying to do with the revised statement was to simplify it, in fact, rather than make it as verbose as it is in the current act. I'll just take one example. The word “adequate” in English does not have a comparable word in French. “Bien adapté” is the same thing as

Transport committee  We discussed this with the minister's office, which feels that the agency has sufficient staff to deal with these problems. The agency has a mediation team which is not very busy. There are a number of resources that can be used to help resolve noise problems.

Transport committee  It doesn't officially belong to the national capital region.

Transport committee  The way the provision is written now, the agency actually adjusts the revenue caps on an annual basis. Doing this will allow for a somewhat retroactive application in that the agency has looked at maintenance costs, and will now reflect the actual costs. Once we establish that on

Transport committee  I can't answer the question of whether there are other agencies that have similar requirements.

Transport committee  We are putting it into this one because of the business of the agency. They usually require that three members be available to hear any complaint, and that three members be there to sign off. If the members are spread throughout the country you always have to require them to meet

Transport committee  They're for three years.

Transport committee  Currently the carriers already sign on to the code of conduct and they are required to comply with that code. As with anything, even the provision of regular services, there are going to be people who are not satisfied with the service that is provided. The agency hears those com

Transport committee  The procurement of the O-Train system belongs to the City of Ottawa and the City of Ottawa follows its procurement approach. Like the federal government and the provincial government, it has gone through a public open tender call for proposals, and that's how the technology was s

Transport committee  Yes, if I recall, I think the minister responded to a letter from you on the matter. VIA did look at it. As you may know, VIA operates with a fixed operating subsidy set at $169 million per year. Within that subsidy, VIA has to continue to operate the network across the country

Transport committee  The environmental issues that evolve as a result of accidents are dealt with as part of the legislation that deals with railway safety, the Railway Safety Act. They also may be implicated by the Transportation of Dangerous Goods Act. The cleanups and things like that are addresse

Transport committee  Currently, the seven members that the agency has are part-time members and they're spread throughout the country. It is sometimes difficult when the agency is doing a hearing, for example, or working on decisions for which it has to have a certain number of members available, to

Transport committee  Definitely.