Transport committee  I don't have any information to support it either way.

Transport committee  I'm not sure it's directly related to safety, but there may be spinoffs to safety. The reality is that Transport Canada has been looking for efficiencies in its process in delivering its services. A lot of that process is driven by inspections and what I would say is bureaucratic

Transport committee  The Canadian Coast Guard provides our membership with primarily icebreaking services. They do a lot more for other stakeholders, but that is the service that we use the most of—

Transport committee  Yes, that service is important to our safe transit of vessels and especially for conditions under ice. We know that the coast guard has a very good strategy and plan in place to renew its fleet. We're supportive of that renewal strategy. We realize that it is a very complex und

Transport committee  Correct: icebreaking is an enabler.

Transport committee  I think in certain cases they are but again because it's not mandatory, it's not something that they're putting their resources into. I'll let some of the other witnesses speak.

Transport committee  Some of it is already enshrined in regulation and procedures by Transport Canada. A classic example is a compulsory pilotage regime that exists all over the country. Whenever there is a trigger for one of those changes that I described earlier, the pilotage authority that is resp

Transport committee  It would be very speculative. There seems to be noise, is the best way I could describe it. I wouldn't say there are any deliberate moves by our membership at the moment to look at increasing that trade within the Great Lakes.

Transport committee  I think you've asked a great question, and I'm hoping the committee has picked up on the theme that one size doesn't fit all, that we have a very diverse marine environment, and industry stakeholders have different challenges. From my perspective, probably the number one thing th

Transport committee  The vast majority is Sarnia. It's been operating for some time. There are some smaller, I won't even call them hubs, but stations in Lake Ontario. But those would be the major ones.

Transport committee  I've heard from the other two witnesses, having not discussed it in any great detail with them in advance, that in some ways this is happening by default in a voluntary system.

Transport committee  To answer your first question, no. Our members are not transporting dangerous goods such as hazardous nuclear byproducts. There may be small quantities of radioactive things. Your watch has some degree of radioactivity in it.

Transport committee  Not as cargo. Regarding your second question and whether there is a dramatic increase, the answer is no. The levels have remained fairly consistent to date, but I am anticipating that some petroleum products will increase in the future. And certainly that doesn't seem to be a se

Transport committee  Those risk assessments are done by a number of organizations, for a number of different reasons. Certainly when you're talking about petroleum products, the customer is definitely demanding it. It's a very significant vetting process that happens for carriers that ship petroleu

Transport committee  I think the number one enabler in my statement is the fact that between industry and government we have a very close relationship in conducting risk assessments. We have a very strong pilotage regime in Canada, where the vast majority of the mariners who pilot vessels that carry