Transport committee  That's a good question. I think the merit of that question comes to my desire to continue to do it. If you see that someone really cares about what you're doing and is willing to come to the plate with you and play ball with you.... How much longer can we do that? I don't kno

Transport committee  Our market is very wide. Our biggest users are mainly people who have no other means to travel. We do have more and more people, and that's why....The question was asked about our costing, and I didn't get a chance to answer, because I ran out of time there. It's a wide range. We

Transport committee  If you were sending something from St. John's to—I'll just pick a decent spot—Corner Brook, it would probably be done in 48 hours. From St. John's to Port aux Basques, you're probably talking about 72 hours. You're looking at that anywhere. We are right now pursuing that as an a

Transport committee  I'll just clarify that we as a company have been in business for 102 years, but our bus business has been on the go for 30 years. We took it over from Canadian National when they privatized back in 1996. They were losing $3.6 million a year in the last year, when we looked at th

Transport committee  I did, thank you. It's all good.

Transport committee  We speak about equality. We'll leave Via Rail for a minute, because that's right in a major hub of the world. I just look at equality when it comes to a smaller city. Even Corner Brook in Newfoundland, which is a very small city, does get funds from the infrastructure fund for tr

Transport committee  Good day. I didn't get the interpretation of the previous speaker, so I'm going to go with what I have in turn. The bus situation in Canada, as one of our speakers said before, is very binding in terms of bringing areas of our province and our country together with the outlyin

Transport committee  Mr. Rogers, I don't know if there's really a lot you can do. The regulation of what's required, maybe for passenger transportation, is something I've talked about. You get a class 2 licence for Newfoundland and that allows you to operate a motorcoach or a school bus. If you're go

Transport committee  I have that opinion. Many of our provinces have a lifespan on coaches. In Newfoundland we have 12 years. There's a new bus this year, so if this happens two years from now, maybe with your 10-year integration plan everything will have evolved in time, so we'll be there. Again,

Transport committee  I agree with you 100%. Normally, it comes down to how a lot of the schools and the school districts are looking for a cheaper way to travel. If they're going on a ski trip, they will take a school bus versus taking a coach because, of course, a coach is going to cost them more co

Transport committee  That's a difficult one. If it's a slight crash, I think the flexibility of the unit gives you less impact. You don't have as much ejection and so much sudden, abrupt stop-standing. The coach absorbs some of the energy of the impact. It all depends how significant it is. If you

Transport committee  For me, it's going to be very difficult to enforce. On my scheduled service, actually, I have an on-board attendant, like a flight attendant. It's probably something I can give them or the government can give them: the autonomy to make sure that people have their seat belt on or

Transport committee  No, I can answer. Of course, I think it's a very positive move to bring the seat belt regulation forward. It's going to take some time to get there. As I stated in the beginning, I think even with regard to the users of coaches—especially when you get into charters and into youn

Transport committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. It's a pleasure to be with you people today via teleconference to talk about the safety of our operation and of all operations within the country for motorcoaches and school buses. Specifically right now we are more in the operation of motorcoaches. We op