Transport committee  I was nodding because I cannot stress enough how important it is to have a leader coming from the federal government, since Marko, even though I like him, was only going to invest if it made business sense for him. It depends where the business strategy for the infrastructure fun

Transport committee  Absolutely. I'll give you an example. I was talking to my colleague from Thunder Bay. Thunder Bay has a great amount of storage space for grain. I said, “Tim, why aren't you moving more grain through here?” He said, “I don't know, Zoran. People don't want to move grain through t

Transport committee  In response to the subject of Kinder Morgan and the safety of the ships, I'd like to say that I was part of establishing, with Mr. Stewart from the Canadian Marine Pilots' Association, the process of escorting those tankers out of the Burnaby facility. I believe strongly that we

Transport committee  I mentioned to you earlier—and I'm glad that you actually had a session yesterday and included the port of Hamilton. Our friend Ian Hamilton from the port of Hamilton is in agreement with the idea of having more collaboration on a regional cluster of levels of ports, which I too

Transport committee  The way I see it, I think the port of Vancouver and the industry on the west coast, especially the Lower Mainland and Vancouver, have done a really good job in setting up especially the Asia-Pacific gateway, in my opinion. The Asia-Pacific gateway should be a really good example

Transport committee  The way the volumes or the container traffic moves through the port of Vancouver, or at least to my knowledge.... Let's use the example of 10 containers coming in. The port of Vancouver has a fairly balanced trade, in and out. They move about 3 million TEUs annually. Ten contai

Transport committee  I guess our friends at the ferry association have a role to play in it as well. It costs some money for a trucker, it costs some money for the ferry, and it costs some money to be trucked in the Lower Mainland, warehoused, and so on and so forth. Meanwhile, shippers need that co

Transport committee  Thank you. I'll time myself, just in case. For the benefit of our Alberta friends and everybody else, I'll explain where we're located. I come from Port Alberni, representing the Port Alberni Port Authority.

Transport committee  We are located in the heart of Vancouver Island, at the end of the long inlet—or deep, natural fjord—open to the Pacific Ocean. We do have a lot of answers to the concerns and problems that we are facing today, especially with the project that we are proposing to develop, a large