Finance committee  The six small airports that I've identified, including Charlottetown, Fredericton, and Prince George, are in smaller communities and have lower traffic volumes. These are all airports that handle fewer than 600,000 passengers a year. Even when the national airports policy was bei

Finance committee  Thank you. Mr. Chair, ladies and gentlemen of the committee, and colleagues on the panel, thank you for the opportunity to speak to you today on two areas of urgency to Canada's airports. One is infrastructure funding criteria for six small airports on federal land. The other is

International Trade committee  Certainly, we understand that visa-related issues are one of the biggest concerns that China has. That's what I'm hearing from our members. We have a tremendous opportunity to grow traffic between China and Canada by taking advantage of that growth in air travel between China and

International Trade committee  I don't know that I could add much to what my colleague in Calgary indicated. Certainly, air cargo is a more expensive way of shipping, so we see higher value goods go by air. We've seen a fair bit of growth; particularly as Canadian carriers have grown their international rout

International Trade committee  I think it's fair to say that most of our members generally believe that liberalization has been a good thing when you look at open skies agreements. For example, the United States has concluded quite a few around the world. Generally, they have opened up air services and benefit

International Trade committee  Ladies and gentlemen of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to address you today on the subject of Canada's international air bilaterals. I understand you have already heard from Vancouver Airport Authority, which is one of our member airports. My comments will be prese

Finance committee  I assume, when you are referring to change, you're referring to the Edmonton International Airport. When our members make major infrastructure development decisions, there is a consultation process in the community, as well as with the users of the airports. Those are designed lo

Finance committee  For the private aerodromes for which we understood this to be intended, it sounds like a reasonable rationale.

Finance committee  Yes.

Finance committee  We have. I'm familiar with their concerns. I haven't spoken with them this week, but we are aware that they have issues with this as well.

Finance committee  Our organization was part of that. It was someone on my staff who participated back in February. I understand it included a discussion about some of the examples that were of concern to the department. My understanding of the focus group was that it was about the perceived probl

Finance committee  Our understanding is that is the focus of the department's exercise in this area.

Finance committee  I think it's fair to say that there's a great deal of uneasiness about the powers that have been written into that part of the language. Again, it goes to unintended consequences. As I testified, we don't believe that this minister wants to turn back the clock on the national ai

Finance committee  We certainly will follow up with some actual language to suggest to the committee. Thank you.

Finance committee  As it relates to this particular language, no.