Finance committee  No, I would categorically reject that for a couple of reasons. One, you talked about the fact that this has somehow been caused by a loss of subsidies. The fact of the matter is that rail, for what it does, is probably about 15% cheaper than trucking now. So it's not a price iss

Finance committee  I have a chart that was handed around that in fact does that. It's a little bit complex, because we're looking at a variety of technologies, and it's how you package them together. I will say this to start. First, if we're going to see a program, for us a prompt launch is more

Finance committee  Thank you very much, Chairman and members of the committee. I thank you for the time. In my brief few moments I'll concentrate on two issues: one is a matter of environmental significance; the other is a matter of tax fairness and competitiveness. We are on the verge of an era

Human Resources committee  I'll respond, if that's all right. I'll be quick. The current Canadian government and the previous governments in the last ten years, but particularly in the last six years, have been spending billions of dollars to try to ensure the reliability and predictability of the supply

Human Resources committee  Mr. Dryden, my argument is that I've heard no justification for doing this. My industry is not one that likes change for the sake of change. Maybe we haven't read the legislation right. We don't know why we have labour stability in our industry, but we have it. I've heard no just

Human Resources committee  They would have no options. It's difficult to find replacement workers, as was said earlier. However, you can, depending on the marketplace right now—

Human Resources committee  What would the options be in that case? To shut down.

Human Resources committee  I think that's what we tried to say in our submission as well, that we have a relatively stable labour relations climate in our industry. We said that we don't see the necessity for Bill C-257. We don't know what it would bring to the table to give whatever balance is supposedly

Human Resources committee  That would be difficult to do, I grant you that. That's why we say we don't think it's been resorted to very often in our industry.

Human Resources committee  No, not enough to fill all of the seats, absolutely not—depending on the size of the company, of course.

Human Resources committee  Yes, we have a long-term structural shortage.

Human Resources committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, and members of the committee. My name is David Bradley. I'm CEO of the Canadian Trucking Alliance. We represent in excess of 4,500 trucking companies across Canada. It is our view that Bill C-257 is unnecessary, and if you'll bear with me, I'd

Finance committee  I think we can do better.

Finance committee  Bio-terrorism is the term they're using. Agriculture Minister Strahl met last week with his counterpart, and the indication we received was that the preliminary meeting was positive and that they are at least prepared to look at alternatives. So again, as I said to you earlier, I

Finance committee  No, I don't. There are no other similar programs in the transportation sector, and that's what I'm involved in. How that compares to allowing people to get rid of microwaves quicker and that sort of thing, I can't say. However, I think it's clear that transportation is a major