Transport committee  We are open for business.

Transport committee  This is not cheap. We had to make significant expenditures for surveys and prepare legal documents in order to make certain lands available. I will give you the exact dates involved. We now have all of the authorizations, i.e. that of treasury board, cabinet, and so on. I even cr

Transport committee  As Mr. Merrifield said, last year.... The government is committing a lot money to the corporation, you're right: $516 million last year and another $407 million in the budget that was announced a couple of weeks ago. We can ask the corporation to report back on where that money i

Transport committee  Certainly. Major work is planned in the Alexandria subdivision, between Côteau and Montreal. We can give you information in this regard.

Public Accounts committee  As I said earlier, I think our system will be improved as a result of this audit. Thank you very much.

Public Accounts committee  First of all, Mr. Chair, I do not accept the statement that the government is starving us of resources to do our job. What the government has asked us, what the Auditor General asked us, is whether our programs are cost-effective: is this the best way to spend the dollars we ha

Public Accounts committee  Do you have that?

Public Accounts committee  We've covered that already. I would say 3% to 5% a year, easily.

Public Accounts committee  Absolutely. Traffic is going up.

Public Accounts committee  Just to repeat what we said earlier, fortunately we're a bit ahead of schedule compared with what we thought we could do when we actually responded to the report. The PAA is now much more advanced and is about to be approved. So we are well advanced now and are being much more pr

Public Accounts committee  I'm the accountable executive for what we operate ourselves, including a number of aircraft.

Public Accounts committee  You are referring more to a security issue rather than a safety issue.

Public Accounts committee  Yes, certainly, Mr. Grégoire is responsible for the safety and security of Canadian transportation. Of course, we are aware of yesterday's incident, which is currently under investigation. We will try to determine what happened, who held restricted access cards, etc.

Public Accounts committee  Just to use your earlier example, if there's a fairly new operator, two years in business, as Marc said, we would want SMS to apply to all, but we probably would do more spot-checking on that company, being new, for which we have no history. That's where more inspection time woul

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chairman, I think it's a very good question. It's something we're very much aware of. On the one hand, we're asking our inspectors to know the companies very well--who are the managers, what is their background?--to have a very personal understanding of that operation. Yet we