Transport committee  Thank you, Mr. Barsalou‑Duval. Actually, that is one of the 10 recommendations contained in the document submitted to your committee. That bill contained some interesting measures. I spoke recently with representatives from the Institut maritime du Québec, the IMQ. The Canadian

Transport committee  It's the same story in our industry. I saw statistics this morning talking about processing delays for 2.6 million applications at Immigration Canada. It seems that is the problem. I would say that there is a personnel issue with Immigration Canada. They can't do the work quickly

Transport committee  You talked about coordination, and indeed, there needs to be better coordination of the supply chain. Some recommendations were made to the task force. Other committees are also studying the supply chain, so I'm going to focus on the labour shortage, if you don't mind, which is t

Transport committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, for inviting the Canadian Ferry Association to speak on this important issue. First, let me provide you some background on the sector. Ferries in Canada annually transport over 60 million passengers, 23 million vehicles and billions of dollars'

Transport committee  Mr. Bachrach, you've heard from every witness in this room, I think, that labour is a key issue. We are certainly affected in the same manner as all of the other witnesses and all of the other sectors in Canada. There is a labour shortage in Canada. There is a specialized labour

Transport committee  What I can say is that generally the government has been supportive of our making changes in our operations—maybe not supportive with funding, as I indicated in my previous answer. Regardless, you still need to bring power to the shore, where the ferries are going to be charging

Transport committee  It is clear that when the government announced programs for the environment and for public transportation, etc., they made decisions that excluded ferries, since recent funding programs to decarbonize transportation do not include the ferry sector. We are excluded. That's clear.

Transport committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Bachrach. I fully expected you to ask that question. I'm pleased to see that you have done so. We indeed suffered a very big setback around Haida Gwaii when most of the members of a crew fell sick due to COVID. However, that outlined the lack of replacem

Transport committee  Thank you very much for your question, Mr. Barsalou‑Duval. We are indeed seeing many more periods where these kinds of disruptions are occurring. This summer, for example, the economy on Vancouver Island in British Columbia will probably be affected. Tourism is good, but tourist

Transport committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. The ferry sector is definitely critical to Canada's supply chain. Annually, CFA members transport 55 million passengers, 22 million vehicles and billions of dollars of goods. Ferries connect urban, rural, remote and indigenous communities in every

Finance committee  It's fairly easy. Designating BC Ferries a prescribed organization is not a difficult thing. It can be done tonight. It could be moved to cabinet there. It's a fairly easy decision. The money is there. Change the legislation to support organizations that can't show revenues in

Finance committee  I will share what I can, Mr. Julian.

Finance committee  We are certainly very disappointed by that situation. Those operators did everything they could to rebuild their businesses after the floods. They suffered large losses after the flood of 2019. We had several members of Parliament and others taking pictures with sandbags. That's

Finance committee  You know, I'm very interested that you asked that question. This will be short, because I see Mr. Chair saying that it should be short.

Finance committee  We understand there are discussions for public transit infrastructure for municipalities, etc. We don't want to create a divide in this country between urban and rural regions. Ferries often serve rural regions. We had a gentleman here from Greyhound, which also services intercit