Transport committee  No.

Transport committee  They are recommendations from the committee at this stage, sir. The government has undertaken, in my understanding.... I stand to be corrected here, but in my understanding these recommendations are now moving forward, and there is a possibility that they could appear in legislat

Transport committee  Yes.

Transport committee  For a number of years the Canadian Coast Guard, for reasons I'm not clear about and I don't think too many of us are clear about, has not been an integral member of the incident command system. It's been outside the incident command. It's been a bit of a satellite organization. W

Transport committee  I'm happy to do so, Mr. Chairman, should you wish. First of all, Kitsilano base is not actually within the port's jurisdiction. It's outside of the port's jurisdiction. There was a misperception that in some way the Kitsilano base was related to spill response preparedness and c

Transport committee  As Mr. Wilson mentioned earlier there is a requirement already with the response organizations to have drills. Eastern and western Canada are mandated to have a 1,000-tonne drill every year and a 10,000-tonne drill every three years. Really what you're doing is asking the oil han

Transport committee  Again, as Ms. Legars accurately pointed out, there are formulas under which the liability of the vessel—because this is an incident involving a vessel—would be calculated. In a general sense, under the international conventions today, it's about $1 billion of liability limitation

Transport committee  The legislation that I'm questioning is the existing legislation, which is to say that you're required to have 10,000 tonnes of response preparedness and response capability under the Canada Shipping Act today. The response organizations are required to have that level of respo

Transport committee  In our view, on the west coast, it's insufficient and more is needed.

Transport committee  No, it's not.

Transport committee  In the view of the international marine industry, the Canadian Coast Guard has been underfunded for a number of years. That manifests itself in a number of ways. They're really highlighted in the report that you reference and that I referred to in my comments. I think many of the

Transport committee  Yes. I think the extension of the regime to include oil handling facilities was a very logical step to be taken. One of the questions we have regularly been asked is what happens in the event of an incident in a marine facility that eventually finishes up with an impact on the

Transport committee  Mr. Chairman and honourable committee members, good morning. Formed in 1923, the Chamber of Shipping of British Columbia represents the full spectrum of international and domestic shipping-related interests in western Canada, including but not limited to international and domest

Natural Resources committee  Yes, I would say it's a very successful program, and in fact, I'm not sure if the committee is aware that it was actually called to help out during the Deepwater Horizon incident in 2011, because the capability of that program was actually something that the United States did not

Natural Resources committee  I'm not sure if that's a good start. We could go on quite—