Transport committee  I guess the short answer is we heard—and I know from my own experience in business that while we all obsess over international trade, and tariffs, and related agreements—that when you actually look at how supply chain costs accumulate in the total supply chain of companies, trans

Transport committee  If I were to make a categorical statement, it would be this. For any given entity whether it's a province, a country, or North America, the more efficient the transportation system is in terms of its integration, its fluidity, and how it delivers products to the end user, the les

Transport committee  Thank you, Madam Chair, and honourable members. I'm appearing here not really on behalf of anybody except myself. I headed up a transportation review, some two and a half to three years ago, of the Canada Transportation Act. Much of what I have to say will reflect some of the con

Transport committee  I think when you have the option of improving rail linkages to tidewater on the east coast or in the St. Lawrence, the likelihood that you're going to solve your icebreaking and scale problems in the seaway any time soon and in an affordable way are pretty low. I think you can im

Transport committee  Thank you very much for inviting me and showing the interest and dedication that you're showing. I want to thank Murad Al-Katib for getting up at four or five o'clock in the morning, whatever you did, Murad, to participate. Thank you very kindly.

Transport committee  I think the railways are already benefiting from access to foreign capital through public markets. The question would really be around passenger rail, and I think, yes, there is a possibility there. I should emphasize that there is a huge amount of Canadian long-term capital that

Transport committee  Actually, you will find that there are institutionally done rankings of Canada's place in terms of transportation logistics, and we have fallen. I don't remember the precise ranking, but I think we have fallen somewhere from 14th to 16th in the world in terms of the quality of ou

Transport committee  I would just say that a re-mandated CTA would have a much more comprehensive capacity and an information base to understand the workings of the system and identify problems and bottlenecks before they become a crisis.

Transport committee  I will give you a quick answer.

Transport committee  Correct.

Transport committee  In the report we have emphasized the importance of the small airports capital fund, or whatever it's called. There is a fund in Transport Canada for investing in small airports, and we have recommended a significant increase in those funds. Our priority would have been more rem

Transport committee  Our recommendations in the report in the air sector, for example, were to increase the foreign ownership limit from 25% to 49%. That's not different from the Wilson report back in 2008. The restrictions on foreign ownership are particularly onerous for start-up carriers. We've

Transport committee  Well, it's not that different from the time it takes to get major project decisions, which in Canada is starting to be clocked in decades now instead of months and years. I think we have a major problem nationally in terms of attracting major investments and in recognizing that w

Transport committee  I'm not sure what your question is. Do you mean to make western products flow through the eastern corridor?

Transport committee  You could, but the elephant in the room is that nobody wants to agree that Halifax should be, let's say, the primary container port for the east coast. Let's say Saint John becomes the bulk and energy port. There seems to be an ongoing inability to agree on where the focus on inv