Transport committee  We would be tremendously supportive of co-operating, collaborating in any way possible. I think what's really important is that it needs to be driven by hard evidence. Most federal infrastructure funding today is delivered based on local priorities, and local governments are obvi

Transport committee  I don't know what the precise impact would be, and I think some of the other witnesses would have a better idea. As we're hearing, our transportation system is the circulatory system of our economy. Where we have only air access, or we have limited road access, the consequences a

Transport committee  At the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, we have spent a lot of time over the past several years talking about the challenges with air travel competitiveness. There's generally been a reluctance from the federal government to look at what ticket cost is composed of, what some of the

Transport committee  The chambers of commerce across the country have worked with various regional organizations that are looking at specific gateways and corridors. Obviously, there's a lot of work in the Lower Mainland through the Greater Vancouver Gateway Council and others. We participated in tha

Transport committee  Sure. Beyond Preclearance was started about a year and a half ago. It's co-chaired by the Vancouver Airport Authority and the Pacific NorthWest Economic Region on the other side of the border. It has members in Canada and the U.S.—various organizations and companies—and it's bas

Transport committee  I have a couple of comments. On fighting climate change, I think that anytime we can increase the fluidity of our supply chains, there will be less congestion, fewer trucks sitting in traffic and fewer regular commuters stuck in traffic at rail crossings and the like. Improving

Transport committee  Sure. Some of those are other policy resolutions that the Canadian chambers and boards of trade have passed. One is linked to the need for a pan-territorial transportation strategy. Obviously, the need for infrastructure far exceeds the amount of funding that's available in the

Transport committee  Thank you, Chair and committee members, for inviting the Canadian Chamber of Commerce to take part in your study on the establishment of a Canadian transportation and logistics strategy. Unsurprisingly, goods and people movement affects nearly every chamber member amongst our n

Industry committee  I would just add, in agreement with all of those, that the chamber is releasing a report next week on the need to modernize our tax system. I think simplifying and modernizing the tax system itself would be a big help. One of the other things we're going to recommend in the repo

Industry committee  Yes. Principally, if you're going to impose costs on companies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, carbon pricing is an efficient way to do it. We've always said that needs to be accompanied by a reduction in the regulatory burden and controls placed on those companies, if those

Industry committee  There is no target associated with carbon pricing specifically.

Industry committee  It's challenging, because at the same time as there are other rules being amended—issues such as the clean fuel standard and new methane regulations, which will impose very high costs on members and life-cycle accounting of fuel—there are a lot of unknowns and uncertainty. A lot

Industry committee  There are a couple of things. First, I think this goes to what Laura was discussing, in terms of regulation in and regulation out. Without an accurate measure, it's incredibly difficult to determine where and how we're trending, other than what we hear anecdotally from our member

Industry committee  Yes, absolutely. I think the ongoing Patented Medicine Prices Review Board regulations are a perfect example of this. The department has come out with regulations. It says that the objective is to lower drug prices. It presents the analysis that underpins that. It went to indust

Industry committee  First, I think Minister Brison and Treasury Board deserve a tremendous amount of credit for what was in the fall economic statement and their work to get that in there. Now it all comes down to implementation. These are promises, and now we'll see how these are fulfilled. We thin