Transport committee  I should have brought my sleeping bag.

Transport committee  Again, it's an extremely worthwhile point because we don't even have a national standard, let alone an international one. Other jurisdictions, whether it's the U.K. or in Hong Kong, can tell you whether they're meeting a national standard in the number of passengers they screen o

Transport committee  We didn't look specifically at infrastructure programs and the small airports. At least for the northern airports, we have called for specific funds to be devoted to things like improvement in navigational aids and runways. Another member raised the issue earlier of regional ai

Transport committee  Thank you.

Transport committee  Right.

Transport committee  That flowed from the experience our chair had in the aerospace review he conducted several years ago. As an aerospace nation, a country that has a long and proud history of participation in the aerospace sector, we simply wanted to reiterate the importance of a regulatory framewo

Transport committee  Absolutely.

Transport committee  That is an entire meeting unto itself, given the fact that it's so complex.

Transport committee  I think you've hit this issue full square, and it's something that we encountered. I'm not an expert in this, but the only piece of advice, based on what we saw, is that none of these so-called nation-building projects will work without, from the very absolute conception stage, i

Transport committee  Absolutely. Those projects were identified as a result of local input from local representatives, that indigenous communities that were there. This is not a permanent finite list, because these could change. You're absolutely right: they need to be the ones identifying what proje

Transport committee  Certification certainly includes aircraft maintenance.

Transport committee  That's one thing we heard very clearly, that the reduction in the provincial fuel excise tax on aviation fuel was beneficial in increasing services—to Vancouver in particular—and that the equivalent in Ontario was detrimental to the profitability and viability of many of these se

Transport committee  It's an excellent question. As we looked at this issue, the one thing that was clear to us is that while we do have a lot of these issues in travel today, certainly the two large national carriers in Canada have demonstrated a higher degree of customer service in jurisdictions wh

Transport committee  I don't want to overplay it, but it was certainly one of the regrets in terms of our committee that we didn't have the time, and we had to limit ourselves to north of the 60th parallel. The minister of the day actually asked us to look specifically at northern transportation, bec

Transport committee  Yes, exactly. It's an area where there's still a tremendous amount that needs to be done. The one thing we found quite interesting is that in many of these northern jurisdictions Canada in fact is already taking either a leadership role or a co-leadership role with other northe