Transport committee  Certainly. I will answer in English, if you don't mind. I think we would have a couple of really good recent examples. In terms of the whale situation on the east coast, there is a system in which we've implemented various voluntary measures, specifically whale watch reportin

Transport committee  Yes, and I think we basically just gave those examples of where we need the interim order process tightened up. There are lots of other examples in terms of consistency across different pieces of legislation. There's the Environmental Protection Act, the CEPA process. I'm famili

Transport committee  Sure. We'd be pleased to do that. To be clear, we share the goal of rapid response during a marine pollution instance. I don't think there's any debate about that. Therefore, in our opinion, they should only be triggered by urgent circumstances. With the way this language is w

Transport committee  I'm not sure if I'm quite as concerned. I think that certainly is a possibility, and for clarity it would be appropriate to perhaps tighten the wording up there as well, just in case.

Transport committee  In terms of regulation-making powers for marine environmental protection, we can't stress enough that science and evidence are essential to the development of any new regulatory measure to ensure that they are effective, and we would also note that industry already has a great re

Transport committee  Sure, I'd be pleased to. Thank you. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you, Madam Chair, clerk and members of this committee for the invitation to speak today. I'm pleased to see so many of you a short while after our Marine Day on the Hill event on the 16th, during wh

Transport committee  Yes, if I could. Partly because of my personal and business background, I've always been a big proponent of integrated multimodal approaches and policies. Perhaps carrying that point further from Bruce, I think that is huge, and I did hear some ultimate discussion about this. I

Transport committee  The Minister of Transport is the ultimate custodian of policy across the country from a transportation perspective. He is certainly in a good position to call stakeholders and convene stakeholders, working towards that approach. I would suggest that the ministry tends to work in

Transport committee  I would like to add, and maybe just pick up on a point. In our discussion, I had mentioned the International Maritime Organization in London, and the need to have a level playing field for emissions. It was a bit of a passing comment and I didn't elaborate, but now that we have a

Transport committee  Good evening. I'm Bruce Burrows, president of the Chamber of Marine Commerce.

Transport committee  Mr. Liepert, you're from Alberta but that would be a great speech here in Ontario too.

Transport committee  Those are two great questions. I would say, in fact, that our costs are lower. Don't forget that a single vessel carries 30,000 tonnes, or up to 30,000 tonnes, so the efficiencies that are driven from that are huge. That translates right down to prices that people like Mr. Ruhl

Transport committee  It's an excellent question. The short answer is yes. Keep in mind that, despite the context that 25% of the problem of greenhouse gas emissions lies with transport, and a majority of that by far is from roads from either personal auto use or trucks, maybe 2% to 3% is marine. Th

Transport committee  Sure. Let me first say from an infrastructure perspective that our shipowners invest over $2 billion in ship assets. That's a mobile piece of infrastructure—

Transport committee  Right, and I think we also very much need to secure marine's fair share of infrastructure investment on the ground end. We talk a lot about port infrastructure. The seaway I think is in pretty good shape, to be honest. They've done a great job. They've just brought in hands-free