Natural Resources committee  It depends where you are in Atlantic Canada, because the price we can charge for propane in New Brunswick is actually regulated, as it is in Prince Edward Island. So it's regulated to a maximum, although I don't know how many of our members actually go to the maximum. They compet

Natural Resources committee  What the mining companies are seeing is diesel. The propane can come in at 40% less than diesel without any problem, given the price of propane right now. If you're looking at a large number of uses for propane and you want to secure your supply long-term, I'm sure I have membe

Natural Resources committee  Or you could use rail.

Natural Resources committee  Actually we have members who are looking at leasing rail cars and bringing more by rail into Atlantic Canada and storing it. The real challenge for propane in Atlantic Canada is storage. You have natural salt caverns in the Sarnia area that Mother Nature gave to that region of t

Natural Resources committee  Thank you very much for the question about propane fracking. At the risk of sounding like a commercial for GASFRAC, because it is the only company in Canada that is actually doing it, I'll do my best to answer your question. The potential market is worldwide, I guess, from GASFRA

Natural Resources committee  You're talking to the CEO of the Canadian Propane Association. The only answer I can give you is yes, without disrespect for my friends at the CGA. Tim's a good guy. I know he was here earlier this week, and he said nice things about me, so I have to say nice things about him. I

Natural Resources committee  Thanks very much. Right now our energy corridor, if you want to call it that, comes from the west either by pipeline or by rail and through the Enbridge pipeline into Sarnia. Where we have a gap is into Atlantic Canada. We could use some propane flow, as you have right now into

Natural Resources committee  If you have an excess supply of your product you want to find a new customer. We're already seeing that among our larger members right now. Two of them have announced export opportunity plans: Pembina and AltaGas have gone public with plans to go to Asia with natural gas liquids,

Natural Resources committee  In one sense we're prepared to compete on an even keel, a level playing field, and we're happy to do that, provided we don't have to go up against subsidies as well—we can never compete against subsidies. Right now a lot of the product goes by pipeline, rail, and truck. To get a

Natural Resources committee  Yes. Our members who use the railways generally have a good rapport with them, which isn't to say it couldn't be better; it does take some time. Our cousin down south, with their increase in natural gas liquids due to shale gas exploration, has taken up a lot of those rail cars;

Natural Resources committee  Do you mean export or domestic market?

Natural Resources committee  As I outlined moments ago, if you look domestically, Atlantic Canada is a huge opportunity for propane. I think the mining sector continues to offer a great growth opportunity, as does fleet transportation. Canada Post is converting 300 of its fleet to propane. Export-wise, Sout

Natural Resources committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. I think guess that just goes to show how much work we have yet to do, to get people to get our name right. This committee has an awful lot of work ahead of it to do. I don't envy you. There's a great many issues to be covered. For the next si

Transport committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. On the process and the legislation, the process was fine. It allowed for a great deal of input. On the writing of the legislation itself, we found the department to be very open and accessible. They asked us specific questions and we gave them specific ans

Transport committee  I don't have the exact number, Mr. Holder. I couldn't say if it was 95% or 90%. It's much better than it was five years ago, though.