Transport committee  I can say the communities in the region are particularly pleased. The access road you talked about from the end of the 401 to the new border crossing is a provincial responsibility, yet we've committed to 50% of the eligible capital costs on that road. It's a very strong statemen

Transport committee  I would encourage you to go down that route. If I can just shoehorn something in here, I have one last item. You mentioned that you'll be going to cabinet with details “soon”; I think that was the word used in your statement. Are we down to days, weeks, months...?

Transport committee  Okay, fair enough. Thank you.

Transport committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you to the minister for his appearance here today. I'm relatively new to the transport committee. I came over just before Christmas. One thing that's become really clear to me is that the responsibilities in Transport Canada are massive. They're comp

Transport committee  Which is what I expected. Can you or your officials also verify...? There's been some confusion that this represents the total amount of the 50% eligible cost on the access road. Some of your officials in the region have said it's only a downpayment, or an initial amount, and th

Transport committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm not sure what to do in 40 seconds here. Ms. Brazier, I want to go to your presentation and to something that really concerns me. You say that “companies in our sector have a simple choice: they can break the laws and sacrifice safety, or they can go out

Transport committee  Is your competitive situation so bad that your company is either going to go out of business or you have to break the law?

Transport committee  I will certainly do so.

Transport committee  Can the union be of any assistance in getting some of those numbers to this committee?

Transport committee  I'd appreciate that. I asked a question of Mr. Creel about CN's GOI. We had heard from Mr. Rhodes before this committee that safety used to be number one when you flipped open your book for the GOI. He says it's now number four. I asked the question to Mr. Creel. He then sent a

Transport committee  Yes. And can that be tabled with the committee at some point, in both official languages, so we can have it?

Transport committee  I think the committee would like to see that, because we certainly want to verify who's telling the truth on this one, whether it's Mr. Rhodes or whether it's CN. I'd love the committee to be able to determine that. Last, I asked the CN officials whether they would admit that th

Transport committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you to our witnesses for appearing. Where to begin here? Of course, we did have CN before the committee last week. I didn't find their testimony particularly helpful. Mr. Cotie, you said CN thinks that accidents are the fault of bad individual worke

Transport committee  I find it interesting that you call them “efficiency” and not “safety” tests, by the way. When you talk about these efficiency tests, you say it's alarming how many problems show up, and then you go on to explain how it's a worker problem. You know, I worked on the line for a ma

Transport committee  I tell you, I can certainly identify with someone like Mr. Rhodes. At the company I used to work for they measured five things: safety, quality, delivery, cost, and morale. If you asked any employee on the line, they would tell you that they thought instead that the five were del