Transport committee  I've travelled the country, and we've deployed solutions across the country into the United States and around the world. I'm a very proud Canadian. One thing I recognize is that this region.... The Great Lakes seaway is bigger than Niagara. It's the entire 3,700-kilometre borde

Transport committee  There isn't as much today, but that's what I'm proposing. Sylvie at the Port of Montreal is one of our strong supporters in this shared maritime domain awareness. You are correct. It does connect back to smart cities. Here in Niagara, we're dealing with a technology from a marin

Transport committee  It's more about that fact that, first of all, if you know where the congestion is, you can plan. If they happen to be at a choke point, the harbour masters tell us.... They are all part of this initiative and well understand smarter shipping. They have a relationship with the mar

Transport committee  I'm not sure that driverless vehicles themselves would have a direct impact on port operations. I'm definitely not an expert in that area. The issue, as I understand it, is more that the stakeholders, the logistics handlers, at the terminal facilities.... The ports themselves do

Transport committee  I call it smarter shipping, but it's the same word. Let me give you some examples. It's the best way to illustrate it.

Transport committee  We should. To use a hockey analogy, to do anything smarter is team play. Whether we're a shipping company, the seaway, the government, the regulators, Transport Canada, we all have an individual role to play. This is voluntary team play because it makes us all better. It's system

Transport committee  Your observations, again, are bang on, sir. What you may be lacking is that we have the technology today for what we call shared maritime domain awareness, or MDA. It has been developed over the last 15 years because of post-9/11 concerns, but now it's making its way into the c

Transport committee  No, it wouldn't delay it. It would add to operational efficiency. There's nothing that ties the two—

Transport committee  I'm not an expert in the highway area. My gut tells me that it wouldn't necessarily change the need for the mid-peninsula corridor. In the future it could possibly change, once you have the operational efficiencies, but I don't believe it would change the need right now.

Transport committee  I'd agree with colleagues, but I'd like to take a more 21st century approach, which is that we can do things smarter. We need the bandwidth where we have the choke points, but moving cargo from ship to port, to terminals, to logistics handlers, to truck, to rail.... We're addin

Transport committee  Yes, sir, that's precisely what I'm saying. If you look in Quebec at CIRRELT, which is a global leading research institute on trade and logistics, and here in Ontario at the University of Windsor's Cross-Border Institute, you see that we have tremendous expertise on logistics t

Transport committee  I think I can comment on that now. With regard to the ice conditions, this past season we saw a Fednav vessel stuck in snow lock and the seaway forced to remain open for an extra week. Better ice monitoring, which the shared MDA technology I spoke of can deliver, cannot only help

Transport committee  It's a pleasure seeing you again. Thank you for having me, Madam Chair and committee members. Good afternoon. My name is Tim Nohara, and I'm the president and CEO of Accipiter Radar, a Canadian high-tech company located right here in Niagara at the centre of the Great Lakes-St.