Transport committee  I may have a bit of a different perspective, and let me tell you why. When you own a fleet of delivery vehicles, you can buy an application to track all of those vehicles. If someone stops at a Tim Hortons for more than 15 minutes, it will tell you. That technology is in your cel

Transport committee  You're going to have a shift from talking about cars to talking about data, and the UAV industry has made that transition, because the money is in the data. Cars are going to be a commodity. When the day comes that it's a shared system and it just shows up, you have no brand alle

Transport committee  That's a great question, and the answer is no.

Transport committee  Thank you very much. In 2007, we had an agreed joint plan developed, which had four phases. We are almost finished phase one, which is the initial regulatory release we're expecting with CG2 this summer. Phase two is kind of halfway, and phases three and four are about beyond vi

Transport committee  There are a couple of facets to this. One is—and I agree with Bern, in terms of the urban environment, for sure—that we have a lot of converging pieces to this puzzle. I would recommend this committee also talk to the Nokias, the Ericssons, the Teluses, and the AI industry to get

Transport committee  Rural broadband is a major issue for agriculture. It's also a major issue for the mining sector and others that are trying to move data so that it's processed in a timely fashion. For agriculture it's really important, because although mining might be able to process the data lat

Transport committee  Good afternoon. I appreciate the opportunity to speak to you today once again on behalf of Unmanned Systems Canada, the national association that represents the unmanned vehicle systems community and our 500 members. I bring to you today insights gained from over a decade of unm

Transport committee  The short answer is yes. I think we have a framework to do that. We're concerned about how we get there from here and how we make business continuity work for everybody, but the requirement to have design standards is critical. At the smallest level, if you call it unregulated or

Transport committee  The short answer is no.

Transport committee  That's a great question. We initiated the conversations almost a decade ago with the Privacy Commissioner not only federally, but provincially. Ann Cavoukian, the Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, wrote a seminal piece called “Privacy by Design”. That was the forerunner to how yo

Transport committee  I think we do that with visual line of sight with that regulation process going forward. I think there is some good material in there that will set the stage for beyond visual line of sight. We need the approval process to start to get beyond visual line of sight operations out t

Transport committee  Just to help clarify, our position is that we were the world leaders, and we're exactly as Ian has said. The U.S. in particular, because they're close to us, but France, Australia, the investments by those governments are now pushing us into an uncomfortable position.

Transport committee  Thank you very much for that question. First, we have to safely coexist in that airspace. Canada has an enviable safety record. The industry fully understands that is a core business risk we need to address. I would conclude that what Ian has shown you in terms of that device—i

Transport committee  That's a good question. That's a proposal that's out there now. There is this difficulty. As we have accelerated this industry to the point we are today, how do we make that transition business-friendly? If in the U.S. this becomes mandatory.... When Alaska adopted it, the FAA ac

Transport committee  Madam Chair, I wish to extend my appreciation to the committee for the invitation to appear as a witness. Unmanned Systems Canada is a national not-for-profit association established in 2003. With 500 members, we represent the Canadian unmanned systems community. We have been pr