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Public Accounts committee The transport and infrastructure portfolio is truly quite a large portfolio. Let me give you one example. Infrastructure Canada is a department just like Transport Canada under the same portfolio. When the government decided to put the economic action plan in place, when the in
May 13th, 2010Committee meeting
Yaprak Baltacioglu
May 13th, 2010Committee meeting
Yaprak Baltacioglu
Public Accounts committee In Canada, we are governed by the Blue Sky transportation policy. It's like free trade agreements, but in terms of aviation. We give foreign countries rights to fly into Canada and we get reciprocal rights to fly into their countries. The European Union agreement is an important
May 13th, 2010Committee meeting
Yaprak Baltacioglu
Public Accounts committee On the performance reporting information, we have tabled this action plan. It's mainly an internal action plan for our department. It basically tells you how we have been working on performance reporting. Very importantly, the first thing we did was realign our departmental prog
May 13th, 2010Committee meeting
Yaprak Baltacioglu
Public Accounts committee First of all, the gateway funds do not lapse and disappear. They are carried from one year to another. The reason gateway funds were not spent is that economies started slowing down, and there were big commitments, like the perimeter highway, as I think it's called, in British Co
May 13th, 2010Committee meeting
Yaprak Baltacioglu
Public Accounts committee Our comments and our action plan were delivered to the clerk yesterday, I was told.
May 13th, 2010Committee meeting
Yaprak Baltacioglu
Public Accounts committee And our opening comments.
May 13th, 2010Committee meeting
Yaprak Baltacioglu
Public Accounts committee Okay. Well, then, please accept our apologies--
May 13th, 2010Committee meeting
Yaprak Baltacioglu
Public Accounts committee Mine would be.
May 13th, 2010Committee meeting
Yaprak Baltacioglu
Public Accounts committee I apologize if that's the case.
May 13th, 2010Committee meeting
Yaprak Baltacioglu
Public Accounts committee I've been in Transport for eight months. Maybe I missed this policy. Sorry about that.
May 13th, 2010Committee meeting
Yaprak Baltacioglu
Public Accounts committee Thank you very much. Mr. Chairman, we came to this meeting on the understanding that we were going to be talking about the process by which we got to these various reports. We would be happy to come back and do a substantive presentation on transportation issues to this committe
May 13th, 2010Committee meeting
Yaprak Baltacioglu
Public Accounts committee I would actually like to be able to answer the question--
May 13th, 2010Committee meeting
Yaprak Baltacioglu
Public Accounts committee In terms of the gateways and borders initiatives, there are two sets of gateway funding. One of them was specific gateway funding. That was the initial funding on gateways. The concept of gateways is simple. You basically connect your transportation infrastructures so that you
May 13th, 2010Committee meeting
Yaprak Baltacioglu
Public Accounts committee Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I congratulate the committee for this process. I think it gives us additional energy to focus further on our reporting documentation. We really appreciate that. As you said, Mr. Chairman, I have Monsieur Morency with me. He's our chief financial officer
May 13th, 2010Committee meeting
Yaprak Baltacioglu