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Lib. (ON)
May I ask a quick last question?
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Lib. (ON)
Okay. Then all I'll say is thank you very much to all three of you.
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Lib. (ON)
Do you have a rough sense, Mr. Chairman, of what time we will reconvene? I know that we'll all run back after voting, but do you have a rough estimate?
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Lib. (ON)
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I want to start by seconding the line of questioning from Mr. Davies. I thought that pinpointing those countries that need the visa for being in the airport would be some useful work that this committee could do, which we could highlight. If you gentlemen help us out, I think this is something we could do that is really concrete.
I'd like to start with Mr. Taylor. I'm glad you quoted that WEF report, because I wanted to ask you about it. It is striking that we rank number one in air transit infrastructure but rank 136 out of 140 when it comes to ticket taxes and airport charges. What can we do about that?
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Lib. (ON)
Do you have some sort of an estimate, a ballpark, of how much of a shift you'd like to see? What would make us competitive, say, with the U.S.? What would make Mr. Bruno competitive with Seattle?
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Lib. (ON)
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Lib. (ON)
Do I have time for one more question, Mr. Chairman?
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Lib. (ON)
It's Wednesday afternoon, but you guys have actually been very radical in talking about the desirability of a Schengen visa arrangement in North America. How realistic do you think that is? Have you been talking to some counterparties about it? What impact would it have on your industry?
Maybe Mr. Taylor first and then Mr. Bruno.
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Lib. (ON)
I want to start off by thanking you both for your testimony. I'd also like to say that I'm pretty new to this file and have been meeting with a lot of stakeholders. They have been uniform in their praise of the skill of Canadian trade negotiators, so thank you very much for that. It's great to hear.
I want to start with a couple of really specific questions; I apologize in advance for my ignorance. On the blue sky policy website, I was able to find the figures for the increased outbound international traffic between 2006 and 2011. It has gone up by 50%. I couldn't find the figure for the inbound international traffic. Is it just the same, and that's why you didn't put it there, or am I missing something? Is there any meaningful difference?
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Lib. (ON)
Thank you.
I am also wondering how much of a sense you have of the implications of the stepped-up level of agreements on traffic regionally. In particular, I'm the MP for Toronto Centre, and we have a regional airport that is the subject of quite a lot of controversy, as I'm sure you're aware. I'd be interested in any information you could share about that.
Where are people going, and has there been more of an increase in some airports and regions than others?
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Lib. (ON)
Thank you.
Mr. Davies raised the issue of cabotage. I would be interested in a sort of blue-sky thinking approach on what your views are, as people who have been working in this area for a long time.
What should we be thinking in the longer term in terms of cabotage that would be beneficial for Canadian consumers, Canadian airlines, people who work for Canadian airlines?
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Lib. (ON)
Or vice versa, right? There could be cabotage in the U.S. that would be open to Canadian airlines, for example.
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Lib. (ON)
On a quick 10-second follow-up, when was it that you explored with the U.S. negotiator the possibility of this and they said, “no way”?
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Lib. (ON)
Yes.
The Chair: Go ahead.
Ms. Chrystia Freeland: Our chair, I am now learning, keeps us strictly to our time, so I'll try to get two quick questions in.
The first is a kind of macro one about some changes in the macro environment—the price of oil. Do you see the falling price of oil changing air travel in ways that are going to affect your negotiations? Is there going to be a lot more travel and are we going to be looking at a lot more desire for flying?
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Lib. (ON)
Have you done any projections on that? Are you making any plans based on that possibility right now?
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Lib. (ON)
Last question, Mr. Christie. You spoke a minute ago about your stakeholders being the carriers and the airports and trying to serve them in these negotiations. How do you fit in the interests of consumers and travellers and also of people who work for airlines? What's the balance you're trying to strike? I realize that it must be really hard. Multiplayer chess comes to mind. Can you give us a sense of your thinking when you're working with all of these different interest groups behind you?
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Lib. (ON)
Thank you, Madam Chair.
It's a real pleasure for me to be here. I'd like to start by thanking our three witnesses for their terrific testimony from such different areas of women's lives. I think it's worth it for all of us to pause and reflect on how important this conversation is. Also, at least for me, it's shocking that we're still having these conversations.
My mother graduated from U of A law school in 1970. I remember being so proud of her as a pioneering Canadian professional and feminist, but really being confident as her daughter that these kinds of conversations, which are very familiar to me from my mom's kitchen, would not be ones that I would be having. I think our generation, the women around this table, have to make sure our daughters don't have these conversations 20 or 30 years from now.
Ms. McDonald spoke about how progress can happen, but that it's very slow. I think we collectively have to decide to speed it up.
I have a few questions.
Ms. McDonald, I was interested in your comments about women on boards. I would love to know your view on how strong the nudge from legislation should be. What's your view on quotas for boards, on a comply-or-explain kind of policy? Is there a country that you think gets this right?
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Lib. (ON)
I agree with you, and I like your comments about B-corps. Would you like to see some Canadian legislation that encourages them? Some states in the U.S. and Latin American countries have it.
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Lib. (ON)
I'd like to ask Ms. Archer one last question.
Thanks for that great presentation. It was wonderful to see you in Edmonton in the summer. You identified, as you did in Edmonton, this very small funding gap for women, especially, say, a single mother with kids who wants to get training and boost their well-being, their family's and the community's. How would you suggest we go about closing that? Would it be an expansion of what we think of as student loans? Would it be an expansion of job training? What's the solution?
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Lib. (ON)
Is there a specific way that you would extend that? Is there one program which you think should be expanded?
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Lib. (ON)
I'd like to go back to Ms. McDonald.
I'd like to start by saying I really appreciate your point about the not accidental coincidence that in professions and in academic areas where we see women starting to succeed, we start to see a pay differential opening up. I felt that very much when I was a reporter in the Soviet Union. I discovered that what we would call finance directors in factories were all women and they were paid very little, and also all the doctors were women and they were paid very little. There is a social component to high-and low-paid professions.
I was really interested in your comments about access to capital, and that it is difficult particularly for women entrepreneurs. Is there anything we can do about that?
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Lib. (ON)
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Lib. (ON)
Finance is a heavily regulated industry. Is there maybe some kind of reporting that we should start making obligatory just to be saying, separating out, how many loans are going to...?
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Lib. (ON)
Thank you very much.
I want to go back to Ms. Archer in Edmonton.
I think we've all been really impressed, as I was over the summer, with the great work of your program. I'd like to ask you whether from the perspective of the work you're doing you think we should be increasing the work of apprenticeship programs and focus maybe specifically on young women earlier in their lives, maybe in high school. Is there an opportunity there?
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Lib. (ON)
That sounds really smart and intriguing. What would pre-apprenticeship training or education be? Can you describe your ideal a little bit?
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