Transport committee  Murad, do you want to take a run at that?

Transport committee  Murad.

Transport committee  We did think recommending immediate removal would be dead on arrival politically.

Transport committee  The reactive as opposed to proactive comment in the report really refers to the fact that the agency is empowered to react to specific complaints. If some shipper, for example, has a complaint about treatment by a railway, and yet this is part of a pattern of behaviour on the par

Transport committee  On the east coast there is an issue of fragmentation. You have too many ports, and they're all competing with each other. Nobody has critical mass. I think government needs to focus on and perhaps encourage institutional investors to focus on one or two ports with the associated

Transport committee  In terms of a national transportation policy, I wouldn't get too excited about the contribution they would make to the regional economy and the national economy. The transportation system, to be efficient, has to be big. It has to have fluidity and it has to have volume. You're i

Transport committee  Again, any incentives that can be put in place to upgrade technology, whether it's in aircraft or in trains, or to upgrade the fluidity of the system have a very positive environmental impact because the more efficient the system is, the more smoothly it operates; without bottlen

Transport committee  I think there needs to be close collaboration and co-operation with the American coast guard. Security in the north is a critical area for both the military and potentially the Coast Guard. There is tremendous underinvestment in the information software around navigation in the n

Transport committee  I want you to take a shot at it.

Transport committee  In the report, we took the view that the Coast Guard is under-resourced and under-mandated, almost tragically so; it's basically not able to meet its responsibilities in terms of what it was originally envisaged to do. Our icebreaking capacity is abysmal. Our investment in hydr

Transport committee  I think the answer is yes, and Murad can add to it. I would just make the general comment that the Canadian transportation system, particularly for grain, has less off-farm storage capacity than those of other countries and relies much more heavily on a just-in-time transportatio

Transport committee  I think Murad wanted to comment on this.

Transport committee  We have recommendations in the report on short-line and on the need to have better tax treatment of investment in short-line rail-related assets to bring it up to the same standard that they have in the United States. They have far superior legislation and tax provisions in the U

Transport committee  That's correct.

Transport committee  I would say we should move very cautiously in terms of abandoning track. I'm thinking mainly of rural feeder lines or feeder lines that connect to resource regions and that kind of thing. On the issue of abandonment of lines within urban areas, I think that is a local issue for