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Transport committee Yes.
May 6th, 2010Committee meeting
Laura Logan
Transport committee No, because they're doing the screening for “bad people” as opposed to the “bad things” approach. They're going through the profiling; they are going through studying the intent of the passenger before they travel.
May 6th, 2010Committee meeting
Laura Logan
Transport committee They're concerned with explosives and people with negative intent.
May 6th, 2010Committee meeting
Laura Logan
Transport committee It appears to be, in their environment. I think it would be appropriate for us to study it more and see what lessons we can learn from there and bring into the Canadian environment that are appropriate for us.
May 6th, 2010Committee meeting
Laura Logan
Transport committee Evolving the products and selling new ones.
May 6th, 2010Committee meeting
Laura Logan
Transport committee I know that a lot of our comments have focused on CATSA, but I think the review would have to look at the screening process in totality. So it would have to involve Transport Canada and the screening philosophy and approach that's used and how that then gets delivered through CATSA, or a revised model of CATSA, or whatever it happens to be.
May 6th, 2010Committee meeting
Laura Logan
Transport committee A number of charges are added to the cost of the ticket, including taxes, but the airport improvement fee is set by each individual airport. They vary enormously. Some airports do not impose a fee. However, at other airports, the fees are very high. And the security charge is added on to that.
May 6th, 2010Committee meeting
Laura Logan
Transport committee -- are much lower.
May 6th, 2010Committee meeting
Laura Logan
Transport committee Yes, it is true. There are APIS programs--advanced passenger information systems--in place with a number of countries, where we have to provide specific data elements about the passengers. Canada has APIS, so we have to transmit the APIS information at the time of departure of the flight.
May 6th, 2010Committee meeting
Laura Logan
Transport committee No, you're right. Also, the lineups are shorter. After December 25, we saw a lot of passengers going to the United States, crossing the border by car and taking a plane from there. Particularly for flights between New Brunswick and Maine, Quebec and Vermont or New York, Ontario and Michigan or New York, Vancouver and Seattle.
May 6th, 2010Committee meeting
Laura Logan
Transport committee Yes.
May 6th, 2010Committee meeting
Laura Logan
Transport committee The liquids issue is one that is truly a global approach to a problem. What happens with the Israelis who fly into the U.S. is that they must fly into an international terminal, where they will then go through the customs proceedings. If they want to make a connecting flight, they will then have to pass through re-screening.
May 6th, 2010Committee meeting
Laura Logan
Transport committee Absolutely not.
May 6th, 2010Committee meeting
Laura Logan
Transport committee Yes. We would definitely be involved in the development and the questioning of the process.
May 6th, 2010Committee meeting
Laura Logan
Transport committee Yes--on those items where we are in control and can hope to improve the service.
May 6th, 2010Committee meeting
Laura Logan