Transport committee  I may use five minutes here, Mr. Chairman. You start with diesel. It's an internal combustion engine. Your car uses gasoline. Diesel uses high compression to burn. Westport's technology changes the injector and replaces a portion of the head of the injectors. Today we use what

Transport committee  David and I have had to go to Ottawa nearly 50 times in the past 2 years.

Transport committee  We've explained the merits of this project to everyone. I try to explain that it extends well beyond Transport Robert. This was a crazy idea thought up by the people in my group, at Transport Robert. We realized we needed to look at alternatives for the future, environmentally sp

Transport committee  After that, it was Mr. Lebel. There have been quite a few ministers in the past three years. I can say that we were able to meet with Mr. Lebel. He was aware of the problem, but when it comes time to take action, it's always the same story. We met with Mr. Paradis, the natural re

Transport committee  You can't make him drink, if he doesn't want to drink.

Transport committee  I can tell you that right now in Quebec, at EBI, two trucks are running on biodiesel. You can recoup methane from the dump site, and people do that. It has to go through a process of compression and then filtration, but they reuse it. However, in my opinion you have to keep in

Transport committee  To give you an idea, a Westport engine—they call it a GX—is actually a Cummins engine, the 15-litre ISX, that used to run on diesel. The EPA developed a program of certification for this Cummins ISX engine, including a catalytic converter, a PDF, and injection of urea into the ex

Transport committee  They couldn't afford to do it if they were truckers; because they sell Coke, they can do it.

Transport committee  To be very open with you, with all the people we've met, we had opportunities.... If you go on the Internet and you punch in LNG, you get about three months of reading. Everything is there, you know. They've discussed it and we've discussed it, but the big question is whether the

Transport committee  Yes, education is needed for the dealers, the OEM people who do repairs. If you have a flat tire and it's winter and the guy wants to bring the truck inside, when he finds out it's an LNG truck, there's no way he will do it. He won't fix it outside, so you have to go and have it

Transport committee  I would like to tell you that it's not that far. To be frank, the technology is coming fast. That's why I keep telling my counterparts in my industry we have to move now, because there's going to be a new technology tomorrow. If you don't move now, you're stuck for the next 15 ye

Transport committee  Again, these trucks are very expensive, and for people buying them.... Coca Cola, for example, does it for show.

Transport committee  We used to have over 40% to 45% in the U.S. We are now down to about 20%, and the rest we have diversified to go into other industries. We were able to concentrate on truckload and LTL going to the United States and Canada before, but today the truckload and the LTL represent les

Transport committee  All together, we're working hard.

Transport committee  The economy is slow. What is going on are the big projects like mining, this and that, but the economy itself.... A good measure is to look at the LTL, the loads that are less than a truckload. As you know, right now there are many more imports coming to Canada from the States th