Transport committee  We have to be very careful about terminology, because registration under the Canada Shipping Act is very different from licensing under the Canada Shipping Act. Registration captures about 40,000 vessels; licensing should cover several million. We need to consider the different

Transport committee  There are a lot of moving parts. While in general the provinces are not on the front line, they can play a very useful role in some cases. For example, in Ontario the OPP basically has the responsibility for regulating water safety on the bulk of the inland waterways. They are th

Transport committee  There's a lot of backlog. Unfortunately we're starting from a bad place. Either you have to consider this to be front-end loaded, or you have to accept that it's going to take a long time to remediate. It's interesting that the sums from the Ship-source Oil Pollution Fund are $

Transport committee  I think the legislation itself is good. I think the implementation is what you need to work on. Part of the early stage of this must be education. People don't know what they're supposed to be doing. Most boat owners are very informal. A minority have their boats in marinas and a

Transport committee  We would be delighted, but I'm not sure that a French translation was developed of it. We delivered it in English only. As far as we're concerned, it's paid for by taxpayers' dollars; it should be available freely to everyone.

Transport committee  We will certainly provide an electronic copy to the clerk.

Transport committee  As I said in an earlier answer, the problem is that nobody wants it. There are various ways of smashing it into ever smaller pieces. There are ways of pyrolysis to turn it into blocks. The efforts of recycling and the cost of recycling far outweigh the value, so somebody has to p

Transport committee  They're almost immortal. This is a problem because there is no market for fibreglass. There have been numerous initiatives in Canada and elsewhere, and your previous witness mentioned some that we've seen as well for turning fibreglass into something useful. At the moment, it's p

Transport committee  It is, and I'll just mention at this point that what we found in our research is that it's a huge problem on the west coast because boats stay in the water. In central Canada, if you leave your boat in the water over the winter, bad things happen to it anyway. Most of the abandon

Transport committee  Madam Chair, ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much for the invitation to appear before this committee. As noted, I'm Vice-President, Operations, for Vard Marine's Ottawa office. Vard is a Canadian company that designs ships. We also undertake a range of consulting activities

Government Operations committee  I'll defer to Mr. Gamble on that.

Government Operations committee  Experience is important but it's not always going to be the most important thing.

Government Operations committee  It is. I made a very brief suggestion that if you want to grade past performance by categories, you can give new entrants an automatic passing grade. For the first couple of times they bid you can say they should declare they're a new entrant. We're not going to require this spec

Government Operations committee  I will just say that we don't see any evidence of that yet.

Government Operations committee  This is one of the points that I made—