Transport committee  Well, this is a new area for me, but from what I've seen there are provisions in our bill, and it seems like the Government of Canada has intentions to put data-sharing provisions into different parts of the supply chain. It's all about visibility, understanding what's coming an

Transport committee  We represent the 17 Canada port authorities and the parts of the bill we're most familiar with are really the parts that are actually directly affecting the CPAs, so I'm not sure that I can really weigh in on that.

Transport committee  Thank you. It's a great question. I do remember that. Everything I will say is prefaced by.... We have real concerns with the governance, so that has to change. Those recommendations we made are hinging on this. I don't know that we can say yet that it will be an improvement. M

Transport committee  It's key. Ports needs to be nimbler. Financial flexibility is not just about borrowing limits. We haven't really talked about this, but the activities that ports can engage in—Ms. Gladu spoke to your small port.... There are impediments on what CPAs can do. One of the ways to b

Transport committee  Perhaps I'll suggest that our chair and Jacques speak to that.

Transport committee  Well, certainly we see that reflected in the structure of some of the ports versus others in terms of additional seats on the board. I think what I'm struck with is that our ports definitely see themselves as part of corridors and systems so, yes, there is a balance between, and

Transport committee  Well, what I would say is that one of the comments that was made by Michel Murray from the Syndicat canadien de la fonction publique on Monday was the concern that that union has with the appointment of the chair. He said that the individual who appoints the chair, that chair is

Transport committee  I can't speak to the labour dispute issues. That's not an area that we would get into. There are parts of the bill that will help. I believe the system.... There's a strategy that's coming out. I think there's stuff that's in the bill that's meant to feed into the strategy. The

Transport committee  It's an interesting question. It's not going to be a veto. I guess as it's intended it is a forum for the port to talk about what they want to do and what's important and what they are planning to do in the coming years and to provide an opportunity for the participants on the va

Transport committee  It's a very good question. I suspect not, but I'd actually like to invite our chair to weigh in on this one. He's operating a port. I would invite Mr. Paquin to comment as well. It's better for the ports to weigh in on this one as they see it in their own circumstances.

Transport committee  I've been in this role for just under two years. I'm not super familiar with the U.S. system or how it's structured or what the role of the board there is relative to the operation of the port and whether that's the same as in Canada. We would have to dig a little further on that

Transport committee  I'd say my impression, in meeting with our ports, is that this is top of mind for our ports in Canada today. I did a tour of the port of Montreal when I first came into the organization. The work they have done to protect the neighbouring residential areas from the port activitie

Transport committee  Well, there are a few concerns. I don't really remember all of Mr. Strahl's questions, but if we're talking about the appointment of the chair, we're really concerned that it creates confusion around the role of the chair. Serge Bijimine appeared on Monday, and he spoke about t

Transport committee  Serge Bijimine used an expression the other day that this is a bit of a “down payment” on future measures. I'd say the answer to that is that depends. From a ports perspective, one of the biggest priorities, because it's infrastructure, is whether or not ports have the means t

Transport committee  The concern for the smaller ports really was in the heavy reporting that's associated with the bill. It'll be a question mark on whether this will be a lot of new work that's required or if it's a repackaging of material that's already being provided. One of our larger ports act