Public Accounts committee  I'll be happy to, Mr. Chair. That's a great question because that is exactly the challenge we face. Every fleet has its own strategy. For vehicles on road, we're moving to zero-emission vehicles. I believe we have zero-emission vehicles for 30% of our on-road fleet. I think we'r

Public Accounts committee  Because we have so many emissions from our transportation fleet, while it's different in composition, it's a similar challenge to DND's. One of the key risk factors, for example, in some of our aircraft is actually the transition to.... You can change the mission or reduce the ho

Public Accounts committee  That's a great question, Mr. Chair.

Public Accounts committee  Some of it is coming from just changing management practices. Some of it is coming from adopting different kinds of equipment. It's a mix. I'll give you two examples quickly. In our national aerial surveillance program, we have a series of Dash 7s and Dash 8s that fly to find an

Public Accounts committee  That's a great—

Public Accounts committee  Very similarly, Mr. Chair, the strategy is calibrated on risk. Risk is a key determinant, but it's not the only one. For example, if we have a choice of two things to invest in and they're going to have about the same scale of emission reductions or moving us towards carbon neu

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, at Transport Canada, like our colleagues at DND, we are working on drafting both our carbon neutral road map, which lays out our plans to 2050, and the risk management strategy. While the carbon footprint is much smaller, Transport is a bit like DND. We're unique in g

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I thank the committee for inviting me to appear before it today. Transport Canada is firmly committed to the targets of the greening government strategy and is committed to achieving more ambitious zero-emission vehicle replacement targets than are require

Transport committee  I would say that Transport Canada, with evolving regulations, continues to require masking while on a plane and in secure areas of an airport as a protection measure, and that's based on evidence. I don't have a sense that it materially affects the flow rates through the airport.

Transport committee  Mr. Chair, I could offer a general answer to the member's question and then turn it over to a colleague from CBSA. On this issue, I would say that, as I indicated in an answer to an earlier question, a lot of hard slogging was done with all partners to get the throughput up thr

Transport committee  It's hard for me, as a public official, to say what the government's policy decisions will be.

Transport committee  Mr. Chair, the member points out an important improvement in the air passenger protection regulations that actually has, as its antecedent, the complete shutdown of air travel back in March 2020. What happened there is that the passenger rights system had a set of obligations for

Transport committee  Mr. Chair, I think the answer to the question is that, as the member indicated, the airline passenger protection, the airline passenger rights regime that Minister Garneau brought in several years ago, came in just before the pandemic. It has made a significant difference in term

Transport committee  In terms of the overall impact of mandates on the protection of the population, I would have to defer to colleagues with PHAC on that. Before I do that, I would simply say that, at Transport Canada, we have been working with our partners to put in place extensive restrictions on

Transport committee  To answer the first question, in that work, we worked with all of the partners and managed to get the ArriveCAN completion rate up much higher for international arriving passengers. That was the work with the entire industry. There was a lot of engagement with the industry on thi