Transport committee  I'll connect back to your earlier comment about autonomous vehicles and vessels. We're all familiar with the tremendous amount of research that's going on in this area. Navigating a vehicle in downtown Ottawa through the road system is probably, with very tight tolerances, even m

Transport committee  I think again on the vision piece, certainly you're hearing the message that an expanded certification system would be part of our vision. We have to remember that safety is clearly the number one priority for all marine shipping stakeholders. Pilotage is just one element of the

Transport committee  I guess you'd have to pose that question to the government about why they didn't—

Transport committee  I think it's clear that we don't have unanimity. Obviously, the status quo from some interests' perspective needs to be protected. I understand the labour point of view, but from a competitive point of view, we continue to need modernization. This is one area where we will be adv

Transport committee  This is a failing of the proposed legislation, as we were pointing out. It does not have a flexible labour model where the authorities would be able to choose. The Danes have taken some great leadership over the 10 years in having more options and have successfully introduced...a

Transport committee  Perhaps I can take that question first. I'll respond in English. Mr. Badawey, I think that's a good question. From an industry perspective, our vision is for a very integrated multimodal system. You mentioned the Great Lakes. An average ship that would sail from, let's say, Mon

Transport committee  This change alone would be a huge improvement to the out-of-date system that currently exists in other pilotage areas. However, one issue that was not included for reform is one that we on the industry side believe is critical in giving pilotage authorities the full control of

Transport committee  Good morning, everyone. Thank you, Madam Chair, and thank you for the invitation to appear before the committee. My name is Bruce Burrows. I'm the President of the new Chamber of Marine Commerce. I'm joined today by Robert Turner, our Vice-President of Operations. I'll launch

Transport committee  That's a very good question, and I have quite a few opinions, but let me be very brief. I'm picking up on Mr. Hardie's earlier comment. He was quite right that we have to be careful with interim orders and so on. There could be damage from too broad an application of rapid interv

Transport committee  Since the seventies, the carriage of oil has doubled but the number and magnitude of oil spills is down tenfold. So I agree, the evidence does not indicate that we have a bigger problem. We have a far smaller problem. A recent study showed that since the mid-nineties, there has

Transport committee  I certainly couldn't argue against that.

Transport committee  If you're asking me that question, my answer is yes. As I said earlier, there is so much we can do on a voluntary basis that is often more effective and more considered, so I would agree.

Transport committee  I think we do, and I sort of inferred that in fact in my opening comments. My concern was with the broader, as I put it, response of the government in terms of how this bill is being packaged up on an omnibus basis. I agree that we do have a good relationship. Things can always b

Transport committee  I think we are well prepared. I think our concern here, Mr. Badawey, is not with the level of coordination that we have with people like the Coast Guard and other response authorities. Rather, one of the concerns we have here is that there may not be clear coordination in lines o

Transport committee  If I could offer a view, too, I think my understanding—I've just reread this again—is that this also may be an opportunity to exempt on the basis of testing for autonomous ships and for moving autonomous ships into various areas. That may be one of the rationales. Unfortunately,