Transport committee  If I may answer to a degree, it depends on what regime, because before the European Commission started setting Europe-wide standards for things like air pollution, engine emission, noises, etc., each country had its own set of rules. Some seemed very slack, while others were pret

Transport committee  Sir, I think that's a point where we have suburbs, for instance, in which there's a house per acre. I live in one like that, Chelsea, and we have a train that goes by. Frankly, no one is very bothered by it. It's two locomotives a night with passenger cars. It could really tick p

Transport committee  Yes, staged.

Transport committee  Transport 2000 has cooperated with the Public Interest Advocacy Centre on these files. With respect to fares, we and our affiliates, like the PIAC, would like to see a kind of truth in advertising standard, where all costs are laid out before the consumer. What we've been treated

Transport committee  Yes, that's a big one. Transport 2000 and other bodies militated long and hard during the merger frenzy between Air Canada and Canadian International Airlines. We were afraid of a duopoly becoming a monopoly. We advocated rather hard for an airlines complaints commissioner to be

Transport committee  The field is open, but there are regulatory and legal difficulties. For example, and this is just taken out of the air as one of many, North American regulations require 800,000 pounds crash resistance at the ends of railway cars. This was very wise at the time when that was the

Transport committee  From the point of view of our organization?

Transport committee  Our organization is based largely in Regina and to a lesser degree in Melville and Saskatoon. Their involvement in the safety aspect--is that what you said?

Transport committee  Safety and environment. They're very strongly involved in environmental issues in railways and transit. They have incorporated in their membership a number of fairly well-known environmentalists, particularly in Regina. Their approach is to promote a kind of holistic thing that M

Transport committee  That's basically it.

Transport committee  Yes. The magic word for that last one is “deferred maintenance”, and there's going to be catching up to do. On the environmental concern, our concern was not that the environment is mentioned. It could be emphasized. But we think the social concerns should be included in the leg

Transport committee  Sir, that's a huge question, but to a degree, yes. I have seen transfer of European technology to Canada and I've seen it in the other direction. This has been going on since the beginning of railways on both continents. On the other hand, there are cultural barriers that slow do

Transport committee  It's the bang-bang.

Transport committee  This situation requires further examination. Any regulation or legislative measures should include sections that say something to the effect that, when making a decree, we must take into account the needs of the public service, take into account the needs of the population and of

Transport committee  I would add that, in the case of the Quebec City-Gatineau corridor, two trains a day are sufficient. It is entirely possible to operate only during the day. However, if we did the same thing with Canadian National and Canadian Pacific in Vancouver, that would kill the western Can