Transport committee  In the course of the committee today I heard many times about basically the ability to be able to reach different stakeholders of the region and be able to help each other. I would like to reassert that the seaway in its mandate of stewardship of a shared resource basically has

Transport committee  Good evening. I'm Jean Aubry-Morin. I'm the vice-president of external relations for the Canadian seaway.

Transport committee  Since the appropriation on the strategic plan that we have is provided to us directly, we have a limited ability to deviate from the agreement we have with Transport Canada to do so. It's precluded to a certain degree, but we encourage all our partners to do so. We help them acce

Transport committee  If you look at the last 20 years, we talked about close to $1 billion in investments and 60% of it was in the Welland Canal. We have not reached the funding you're talking about because it's out of reach for us, but we encourage—

Transport committee  One of our biggest challenges in innovation is the use of artificial intelligence to help our management make strategic decisions. Mr. Hodgson alluded to it earlier. Tomorrow's technologies that will help decision-decision making, planning and all aspects of information and power

Transport committee  I'll complement what Mr. Hamilton is saying. The seaway also has a very expansive stakeholder engagement plan that includes all aspects of the business. To touch on Mr. Hardie's statement, it also includes the community side of the business. I can give you two examples. One is

Transport committee  Thank you for the question. Allow me to give three points in response. First, over the past 18 years, the corporation has increased its expertise in operating the seaway in winter. In particular, we have developed technologies that allow us to operate in increasingly difficult w

Transport committee  The emergency response system developed by the St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation over the past 20 years is very robust and has been used as an example by several other agencies. Our response time is exceptional. Unfortunately, we have had to use our system on some occasi

Transport committee  Sorry to take the attention of the committee, but, to answer the question, there's also the fact that the seaway works hand in hand with Transport Canada and Fisheries and Oceans on the oceans protection plan to leverage all the advantages of the safety record of the seaway, whic

Transport committee  Good morning, Chair and members of the committee. Thank you for the opportunity for the Seaway Management Corporation to make a deposition in front of the committee. I would like to invite Mr. Hodgson to make a statement to the committee.