Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. My name is Ray Orb, and I'm the president of the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities, known as SARM. I was born and raised and live in the small farming community of Cupar, northeast of Regina, with a population of 625 people. SARM represents

Fisheries committee  Not that I know of at this time, but we do have potash available in this province.

Fisheries committee  I think we would have some interest in that. We think Transport Canada should have responsibility. It was mentioned earlier on that float planes are under the jurisdiction of Transport Canada as well. There should be some responsibility. We have a lot of fly-in fishing camps. The

Fisheries committee  To my knowledge, no funding was provided.

Fisheries committee  We believe, through the task force we have, that we don't see the regulations being fully enforced. We believe all we've been doing so far in our province is educating people. We're asking our province to contribute funding towards it, and our province is looking, obviously, to t

Fisheries committee  Thanks for the question, Mr. Rogers. Of course, we believe an enhancement with the Canadian Border Services Agency would be a good start. We also believe that the federal government could perhaps be part of our more provincial aquatic invasive species task force. We could proba

Fisheries committee  I'd like to thank the Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans for this opportunity to comment on the committee's study of aquatic invasive species. My name is Ray Orb. I am president of the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities—known as SARM. Incorporated in 1905,

Agriculture committee  I think that's a fair question. I mentioned that we have a lot of municipalities in a province like Saskatchewan, and those municipal council members are in direct contact with the rural people. I think we're lobbyists, in the sense that we're trying to lobby the provincial gover

Agriculture committee  First of all, it's a pleasure to be here today. My name is Ray Orb. I am the president of the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities, known as SARM. We have been the voice of rural Saskatchewan for over 100 years and we represent all of the 296 rural municipalities in

Transport committee  Those kinds of conversations I'm not actually aware of. We work with indigenous groups in our own province. I can tell you that when we meet through the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, unfortunately there aren't indigenous people at those meetings. We talk with provincia

Transport committee  It's a good question. I think the two industries should work in parallel, but I don't believe they actually do. I think that in a lot of cases, because of what's happened over the last number of years, railways have not proven that they're reliable. Particularly last year, Canadi

Transport committee  To the credit of the trucking industry.... I can only tell you what has been done in Saskatchewan, but most likely it has been done across the country. The truck engines on the semi-trailers are more efficient than they used to be. They're reducing greenhouse gas emissions. They'

Transport committee  I think there was more funding for railways at one time. We used to put in funding, especially into rehabilitating some of the branch lines. The railways now have become very efficient, to the point where they're using the major shipping points where they can load large railcars,

Transport committee  We would have a lot of garbage piling up.

Transport committee  Pardon me?