International Trade committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, committee members, for the invitation to appear before you this afternoon. I will address that question in the second part of my comments. What I would like to discuss during the next 10 minutes is port infrastructure and then supply chain ma

Transport committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Transport committee  That would be a very complicated answer, sir. I can only tell you from the port's perspective. When you're looking at the balance in that, if you look back to your original question about the refrigerated traffic supply chain, for example, that's extremely complicated and delicat

Transport committee  Sir, that's an excellent question, but I really don't have a good feel for an answer on that one. I'm sorry. I would be speculating, and that's a disservice to your question, sir.

Transport committee  That's a fair assessment, sir, at this point, because a lot of that seafood requires special handling in the high-value refrigerated container units, which command a premium for the shippers and are very, very attractive cargo for both the railway and the shipper to handle as a c

Transport committee  The port facilities in Sydney do not currently accommodate the complexity of global connections that we have in terms of the deepwater container vessels on a regularly scheduled service. It's feasible to use the port of Sydney, but I couldn't really comment on their business mode

Transport committee  Yes. I would have to say that the relationship we have enjoyed has improved considerably with two factors that coincided. One was the federal rail review and one was a new management team at CN that opted to broaden and deepen and engage us more comprehensively, not only in daily

Transport committee  Yes, thank you.

Transport committee  Yes, in addition to the fact that the service-level agreement between the terminals, CN, and us has resulted in demonstrable improvements, particularly in factors like calculating the import dwell time on the terminal, as Mr. Xotta referred to in Vancouver. The same holds true in

Transport committee  Sir, in terms of the Halifax connection, we are a party to the agreement that was made between our two container terminal operators and CN Rail. That is a balanced agreement that recognizes there has to be reciprocal obligations on the parties involved. For example, when railcars

Transport committee  I would have to say that's a very concise response from my colleague. We are conscious of the fact that this bill has been driven, obviously, by a need generated, let's say, eight to ten years ago, from shipper dissatisfaction. At this point we've seen great forward thinking an

Transport committee  Good afternoon, Mr. Chairman and members of the panel. Thank you for the opportunity to make a commentary and presentation before the panel this afternoon. Halifax represents something more for Canada in terms of the strategic outreach in global trade that we're engaged in today

Transport committee  Yes, very clearly.

Transport committee  They're back now?