Official Languages committee  Thank you for your question. I'm going to answer in English so I can be more specific. I do not know the number of complaints. We are not the recipient of complaints. It is the port authorities. I know that my organization has not, but other organizations have put forward ac

Official Languages committee  —that supports Canadian trade and competitiveness as outlined in the Canada Marine Act. We submit that this part of the OLA should not apply to Canada's port authorities in the same way that it does not apply to airport authorities.

Official Languages committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to meet with you today on Bill C‑13. I am Daniel-Robert Gooch, president of the Association of Canadian Port Authorities. We represent the 17 Canadian port authorities that move most of Canada’s inter

International Trade committee  I believe it's really a matter of a couple of lines of legislation. We know the amendments to the Canada Marine Act are going to be tabled soon. We're certainly going to be looking at what the government is suggesting in terms of changing that. One thing that's been talked abou

International Trade committee  The CBSA would be best placed to respond to that question. The federal government has invested in the CBSA. In my previous role, border modernization was something we pushed for several years, and we did see that move forward. At the end of the day, you always need people to do

International Trade committee  What do you mean by “enhance”?

International Trade committee  I'm going to answer in English. I'm not sure I can speak properly to the question, but we have a tremendous network of ports in this country. There is unused capacity in certain parts of the country, and certainly we think there are opportunities to make better use of some of th

International Trade committee  There are a couple of questions in there. Just to add to my colleague's comment, I think that seeing the report of the supply chain task force and where they're sending us next in terms of that development of the national strategy is right where we should be, and we're very inte

International Trade committee  What our ports are looking for are the tools to be able to do what makes the most sense. Debbie spoke to another side of the challenge. For those smaller ports that have lower revenues, it's more of a funding issue. For the national trade corridors fund, it may not be the best pr

International Trade committee  Correct.

International Trade committee  That's one I'm definitely going to pass to Debbie Murray as the subject matter expert on that one.

International Trade committee  Currently, what we have in place for the larger ports would be the borrowing limits. The airport authorities or a private business just doesn't deal with artificially set borrowing limits. What we would like to see is, ideally, a more flexible process whereby the ports would be a

International Trade committee  Honestly, I'd rather have one of the Montreal representatives answer the question. I don't know enough about their business to answer for them.

International Trade committee  I will answer in English. I think I spoke to a bit of it just moments ago in terms of the flexibility that ports have to invest in their infrastructure. There's physical infrastructure, but there's also the digital infrastructure. Perhaps I'll turn to my colleague Debbie Murra

International Trade committee  It's not something I've discussed with my members, but I would make a comparison with airport authorities, which are federal assets that operate at arm's length from government, and with locally responsive governance and a public interest mandate. Airport authorities are eligible