Transport committee  Can you clarify what specifically you're thinking about in terms of the environment?

Transport committee  Yes, we did release a report this summer talking about clean growth and essentially arguing that we need to find a better way of balancing economic opportunities, especially in Atlantic Canada, with the environment. As part of that study, we did also highlight greenhouse gas emis

Transport committee  Certainly the general issue of regulatory differences is not specific just to provinces. It does occur around municipalities within provinces. Even within federal departments, we've heard of inconsistent application, on the transportation specifically. We have not heard of any sp

Transport committee  Again, as I said in my opening comments, one of the challenges in Atlantic Canada is low density and reliance on a few providers, and those providers also then sometimes being heavily dependent upon one or two users. I think this is an ongoing issue that limits choice and capacit

Transport committee  Certainly. I can't speak about other ports, but I know that there's been an ongoing issue with the Port of Halifax. I think that the port authority recognizes that there's the issue around a lot of truck traffic in downtown Halifax and coming through the business areas and now in

Transport committee  I can't comment on that specifically. I know the port has been developing some of its lands around it. I don't know if there have been specific challenges, issues or tensions around that specific point.

Transport committee  We don't have any public studies on that particular topic. We do keep track of all the major investment projects in Atlantic Canada, and we had done a study at one point, looking at those from a transportation perspective. That was for a particular client, so that is not a public

Transport committee  We don't have any specific numbers, other than the numbers that were in the original energy east pipeline proposal. We know that Irving Oil was planning to invest in its own terminal as part of that project. I don't have the numbers at hand, but I think some of those were made

Transport committee  I can't speak to the specific situation, but we have heard that in the past Atlantic Canadian firms would be trucking down to Boston, for example, to ship out of Boston rather than Halifax, so yes, we have heard that in the past. I know there's been some improvement in terms of n

Transport committee  Essentially, the issue is that different provinces have, for different reasons, established different standards. Atlantic companies are not just trading and trucking within one province. They are going across provinces, across Canada and to the United States. The challenge for th

Transport committee  We have, as part of the research for this, been in discussions with them and that's probably why we put forward our proposals, not just for transportation but for these regulatory issues across the four provinces. It's to try to help facilitate and encourage greater co-operation

Transport committee  There are several challenges that we've heard. Probably the biggest one that we heard when we did our pre-consultation around NAFTA is around temporary entry of individuals. There are restrictions on the number of occupations that the U.S. will access. Things have changed a lot s

Transport committee  Can you clarify? I'm not sure exactly what you're looking for me to comment on in that question.

Transport committee  Certainly we have seen fairly substantial growth in our lobster industry. We've seen expansion to new markets and we have seen, as part of that, some increases in capacity, particularly in the airline shipping capacity. I think there has been some response on the supply side, the

Transport committee  I think we've had a similar issue in the past. I don't know if this has been fully resolved. When we did our research report there was some conflicting information. We have had similar long-standing issues around truck and weight limits in the United States—in Maine in particular