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Public Accounts committee That's a very good question. Madam Chair, as the member has indicated, that is a busy rail line through those communities. The answer is no, they shouldn't have to wait for two years. The two years indicates when we think we'll be done implementing fully all five recommendations
November 5th, 2020Committee meeting
Michael Keenan
Public Accounts committee With respect to that point, if you go back to the 2011 audit by the commissioner of the environment and sustainable development, there were a number of major issues, all of which Transport Canada has moved on. We've made dramatic improvements in the program of transportation of d
November 5th, 2020Committee meeting
Michael Keenan
Public Accounts committee Sure. I will be brief, Madam Chair. The report correctly notes that we have had to renew interim plans. There are two reasons. One is that a number of them were outstanding in terms of having a final definition of the standard for firefighting of flammable liquids. We're now bri
November 5th, 2020Committee meeting
Michael Keenan
Public Accounts committee That's a very good question. Thank you for the opportunity to be more precise on this issue. At Transport Canada there are two different major programs of inspection: the transportation of dangerous goods, which includes rail, but also includes marine and air and, through provin
November 5th, 2020Committee meeting
Michael Keenan
Public Accounts committee I'll comment generally, and I may invite a supplementary response from my colleague, Mr. Turcotte. We are doing exactly that. We're building a system where inspectors use hand-held devices to enter data directly. We're putting in more sophisticated digital databases to escape th
November 5th, 2020Committee meeting
Michael Keenan
Public Accounts committee They've quadrupled from 2012 to 2020. We went from 30 to 130 inspectors under the program for the transportation of dangerous goods, which covers all modes the federal government inspects. On rail safety over this period, we went from 107 inspectors to 152. In addition to increa
November 5th, 2020Committee meeting
Michael Keenan
Public Accounts committee That's a great question. In general, there are probably three pathways that we're incorporating international standards into our program on dangerous goods, whether those standards come from the UN sustainable development goals or.... The UN has a system, for example, for categor
November 5th, 2020Committee meeting
Michael Keenan
Public Accounts committee Thank you for the question. It has been years since the tragedy at Lac-Mégantic, but it still looms large, not just for the citizens who suffered in that community but for the whole country. We continue to drive and push our program of dangerous goods and railway safety to ensur
November 5th, 2020Committee meeting
Michael Keenan
Public Accounts committee Madam Chair, the member speaks to really important issues of rail safety. I can commit that in the recent years we have taken dramatic steps to improve oversight. For example, we have quadrupled the number of inspections. The member has pointed out accurately that we are followi
November 5th, 2020Committee meeting
Michael Keenan
Public Accounts committee Good morning. It's good to see you again, Madam Chair. Thank you for the invitation to appear before the Standing Committee on Public Accounts today. As part of the audit of Transport Canada’s transportation of dangerous goods program, the commissioner of the environment and s
November 5th, 2020Committee meeting
Michael Keenan
Transport committee [Technical difficulty—Editor] to the department to assist us in negotiating with a private sector consortium to take over CATSA, as you had indicated.
June 16th, 2020Committee meeting
Michael Keenan
Transport committee Thank you, Minister. Under the ACAP program, the money is flowing on the regular cycle, so we're going through the approvals of the submissions we have received. The 2019 submissions have been approved, and we'll be turning our attention to the 2020 submissions. The program is c
June 16th, 2020Committee meeting
Michael Keenan
Transport committee Thank you. There is a transition period during which the Government of Canada, for an initial period, will transfer the funding for CATSA to the not-for-profit private sector entity that is being set up to run it. After the transfer period, that entity would directly collect t
February 27th, 2020Committee meeting
Michael Keenan
Transport committee There are two points I could elaborate on here. One is that the purpose of the BI, the budget implementation legislation, is to authorize a negotiated transfer. Beyond that, it sets some basic terms, but everything is subject to negotiations with the airlines and the airports.
May 9th, 2019Committee meeting
Michael Keenan
Transport committee I would say that the assets that have been built up at CATSA are quite significant, and they've been built up over a long period of time, over many years. If you go back in the history of CATSA, sometimes it ran a big deficit and the government topped it up, and sometimes it ran
May 9th, 2019Committee meeting
Michael Keenan