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  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 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  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  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  Thank you. We're seeing tremendous growth of airports. It was about 6% nationwide and even higher in some segments over the last year. If you go back several years, it's very strong growth year over year. I also want to speak to an earlier question on the cost of the service.

Transport committee  Certainly the new organization, as the legislation is envisioning it, seems to be set up to be a bit more flexible than CATSA would be, but as you heard from my colleagues, we want to clarify some of that. My colleague from Ottawa is chairing the committee. I'm sure he has some

Transport committee  The way the organization is structured today, it is really impeded in its ability to plan long term, which also impacts the organization's ability to invest in the technologies that are being developed in other parts of the world that may be better from a security perspective as

Transport committee  Most of us were here at the time. I'll just make a couple of comments and open it to my colleagues. Our understanding is that it's generally well received, and that the transfer was generally perceived to be successful. Certainly, we've seen some changes in Nav Canada over the y

Transport committee  Mr. Chair and members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today, and for the study. I'm Daniel Gooch. I'm president of the Canadian Airports Council We have 54 members that represent more than 100 airports around the country, including all of the p

Transport committee  To conclude, no matter where you live in Canada, the air sector is essential to putting our economy back on track, and airports are a key part of that. We need them to be ready for every journey. Thank you.

Transport committee  Thank you, Ms. Kusie. It's good to see you again. Thank you for all your support.