Transport committee  Just before you adjourn the meeting, can I confirm that we have the minister confirmed for April 11?

Transport committee  I'm going to keep asking it until he shows up.

Transport committee  I would like to clarify one point as a follow-up to Mr. Badawey. There is no full calendar. We have, I believe, up to about April 11, and then it's a prospective calendar. We're not privy to a full calendar on our end.

Transport committee  Then I would draw the conclusion that it would be about cost; it wouldn't be about safety, which was my first point. Anyway, thanks.

Transport committee  Would you base your determination solely on safety, not on the financial aspect of repercussions to the OSTA?

Transport committee  Are you basing the need or lack of need for seat belts 100% on the safety of kids, not necessarily on the financial repercussions that would be felt by the Ottawa Student Transportation Authority?

Transport committee  You're one student transportation authority. Would this be consistent across the board with your colleagues or counterparts at other authorities?

Transport committee  You said in your testimony that you would need 100 more buses. Why 100 more buses, if we're simply putting seat belts on existing buses?

Transport committee  I guess I can understand your second point, but from your first point I would draw the conclusion that right now it's not safe, then, to seat three kids to a seat. By saying that now you need 100 more buses to essentially make it safe.... As a dad of two little girls who take a s

Transport committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you for being here. Just to confirm, the Ottawa Student Transportation Authority's jurisdiction is from kindergarten to grade 12. Is that correct?

Transport committee  I have a whole bunch of questions. To start, to sum up your position, you don't think seat belts should be on school buses.

Transport committee  Thank you again for being here. Our brief from the library says that, as of April 2019, the available data from the national collision database is only from 1999 to 2016. Is there a reason we don't have the data up to the current date?

Transport committee  What's the holdup? That's only 2017. We're in 2019.

Transport committee  Are there particular provinces that are causing problems in terms of getting that data at this point in time?

Transport committee  Okay. When it comes to the statistics on crashes, fatalities and serious injuries, it seems, as we learned earlier this week in the committee, that only nine or 10 fatalities that have happened since 1999 directly involved bus crashes. I imagine that there are certainly numbers