Bill C-52

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The House resumed from October 27 consideration of the motion that Bill C-52, An Act to enact the Air Transportation Accountability Act and to amend the Canada Transportation Act and the Canada Marine Act, be read the second time and referred to a committee.

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…e Superior and it is a beautiful part of our nation. It is an honour to rise to enter the debate on Bill C-52 and kick off the debate we are having here today. I will take a brief moment to acknowledge one member of my team whom I had the honour of honouring last night with the presentation of her five-year …

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…h chaos in this place. It is certainly not my intention. It is an honour to rise today and speak to Bill C-52, the enhancing transparency and accountability in the transportation system act. As was alluded to by my friend from Battle River—Crowfoot before me, this bill was brought forward on the tail end of …

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… solutions and requiring airlines to provide services to the regions of Quebec, it does nothing. In Bill C-52, which is before us today, the government is seeking to increase transparency by requiring airport authorities to publicly disclose information respecting directors and senior management, but that is…

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… think I made very clear in my remarks, the concern I share with him on the lack of transparency in Bill C-52. He spoke of the transportation difficulties in his area, and I would echo that, as there are many similar transportation challenges in northern Ontario. He mentioned Via Rail, and there is a Via Rai…

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Madam Speaker, it is a pleasure to rise to speak to Bill C-52. I think the Conservative Party really needs to get a better understanding of the substance of the legislation. It appears as if Conservatives are going to be voting against the legislation, giving t…

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Madam Speaker, I want to thank hon. colleagues for allowing me to be part of this debate on Bill C-52. I have listened intently to the debate. I even went back to listen to the debate of October 27. Some may ask why I did that. I spent about 25 years in aviation and I am keenly interested in the tran…

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… rest of Canadians. That is shameful. Our colleague from the Green Party talked about the fact that Bill C-52 fails to mention intermodal opportunities. She is right. We missed a great opportunity in following up on the great work that our former Conservative government had started, investing in intermodal o…

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Madam Speaker, one of the frustrating things with Bill C-52 and the Liberals' argument is they failed to mention the Canadian Transportation Agency. Complaints to this agency have grown to over 3,000 per month. There are over 60,000 Canadians who are waiting …

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…service development plans in place. There are mechanisms in place for those communities to do that. Bill C-52 clearly is another opportunity that was missed. It does not address any of those areas. That is merely what I was saying. We have one Bloc colleague blaming noise abatement issues and greenhouse gase…