Transport committee  Thank you. Madam Chair and members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today, as well as for your ongoing support in our efforts to improve the experience at airport screening. My name is Daniel-Robert Gooch. I am the President of the Canadian

Transport committee  I know we're in the process of compiling some numbers on that now. I know it's $38 million, and it's been pretty much stalled at that for about 18 years. I know we put a paper in to the Emerson review, and I believe it put the figure at about $75 million a year as being more app

Transport committee  I'll let my colleague speak to the north, but ACAP has under 200 airports that are eligible for that program. There's a minimum requirement in terms of commercial service, and there's also a maximum in terms of passenger counts. In the context of this discussion, you'll have ai

Transport committee  Both of those certainly would be worth a review. Now, when we gave you that number of $75 million to $100 million, that was based on the airports that are currently eligible, right? If you start looking at general aviation, that's another matter altogether.

Transport committee  I don't really have anything to add there. The carbon tax is not one that our organization has taken a position on. We've looked at our industry broadly, in terms of what our priorities are, and I think we've articulated them at this committee fairly frequently in the past. Carb

Transport committee  Madame chair, members of the committee, it is a pleasure to appear before you again today to speak to an area of growing concern to many of the communities our airports serve -- a shortage of qualified commercial pilots, which is leading to reliability problems on important regio

Transport committee  I can answer in a few different ways. From a revenue perspective, airports make most of their money from passenger traffic, but here is where the economic development mandate that airports have as non-share capital corporations comes in. Cargo is tremendously important for many r

Transport committee  You may recall that our airports worked for quite a few years on the unique funding challenges faced by the six smallest NAS airports in terms of their traffic volumes. There were six airports on the lower end of the volume spectrum that were designated as NAS airports but did no

Transport committee  A lot of work is going on in government on facial recognition. As I said, in the U.S., the CBP, working with TSA, the Transportation Security Administration, which does screening there, just announced how they are going to use facial recognition in the screening process. I can't

Transport committee  You asked about CATSA Plus. We are seeing growing wait times around the country. I understand that last summer was fairly good, but it's a constant effort to stay ahead of the growth. We are seeing CATSA Plus. CATSA Plus is an improved lane. It's not necessarily the latest tech

Transport committee  I'd say it's probably been a bit of a mixed reaction. Most of the airports I have spoken to say it's been really good for them, but there are two sides to it. For CATSA Plus, there's the equipment side, but it also requires officers as well—screening agents. There really is a sho

Transport committee  That's not really something our organization has taken a position on. I will say, though, that there are quite a few airports in the greater Toronto area. My colleagues, our members and other airports in the region have been collaborating quite closely through the Southern Ontari

Transport committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. Good morning to all the committee members. I am pleased to be with you this morning. My name is Daniel-Robert Gooch and I am the president of the Canadian Airports Council. The CAC represents 53 airport operators, including the 21 privately operated nat

Finance committee  Well, airports have been investing significant amounts of money into new baggage systems, in part because the needs in terms of screening of baggage are increasing. That certainly improves the delivery times. The wait to leave the customs hall is not really related to that. Tra

Finance committee  Thank you for the question. I will answer it in English. Certainly, CBSA has been very successful in the last few years in working with airports. Airports have made a lot of the technological investments in things like kiosks that allow more travellers to be processed without ha