Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Transport and Communications
First Session, Forty-second Parliament, 2015-16-17
Chair: The Honourable DENNIS DAWSON
Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Wednesday, February 1, 2017
Tuesday, February 7, 2017 (in camera)
Issue No. 10
Consideration of a draft agenda (future business)
and
Thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh meetings:
Study on the development of a strategy to facilitate the transport of crude oil to eastern Canadian refineries and to ports on the East and West coasts of Canada
and
Third meeting:
Study on the regulatory and technical issues related to the deployment of connected and automated vehicles
WITNESSES
Tuesday, January 31, 2017
TransCanada:
Louis Bergeron, Vice-President, Quebec and New Brunswick, Energy East Pipeline;
John Van der Put, Vice-President, Stakeholder Safety and Emergency Response, Energy East Pipeline;
Gary Houston, Vice-President, Energy East Pipeline;
Penny Favel, Director, Indigenous Relations.
Wednesday, February 1, 2017
The Conference Board of Canada:
Carlos Murillo, Economist, Forecasting & Analysis, Industrial Economic Trends.
As an individual:
Pierre Desrochers, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Toronto.
MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE
The Honourable Dennis Dawson, Chair
The Honourable Michael L. MacDonald, Deputy Chair
and
The Honourable Senators:
Boisvenu, Bovey, *Carignan, P.C. (or Martin), Cormier, Doyle, Eggleton, P.C., Gold, Greene, Griffin, *Harder, P.C. (or Bellemare), Hartling, Mercer, Runciman, Saint-Germain, Unger
*Ex officio members
(Quorum 4)
Changes in membership of the committee:
Pursuant to rule 12-5 and to the order of the Senate of December 7, 2016, membership of the committee was amended as follows:
The Honourable Senator Gold replaced the Honourable Senator Galvez (February 6, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Greene replaced the Honourable Senator Lang (February 2, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Galvez replaced the Honourable Senator Forest (January 31, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Lang replaced the Honourable Senator Greene (January 31, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Forest replaced the Honourable Senator Galvez (January 31, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Galvez replaced the Honourable Senator Omidvar (December 19, 2016).
The Honourable Senator McCoy was removed from the membership of the committee, substitution pending (December 15, 2016).
The Honourable Senator Griffin was added to the membership (December 15, 2016).
The Honourable Senator Saint-Germain was added to the membership (December 15, 2016).
The Honourable Senator Omidvar was added to the membership (December 15, 2016).
The Honourable Senator Bovey was added to the membership (December 15, 2016).
The Honourable Senator Black was removed from the membership of the committee, substitution pending (December 15, 2016).
The Honourable Senator Hartling was added to the membership (December 15, 2016).
The Honourable Senator Cormier was added to the membership (December 15, 2016).
The Honourable Senator Plett was removed from the membership of the committee, substitution pending (December 15, 2016).