Past Session:
41-1
41st Parliament,
1st Session
(June 2, 2011 - September 13, 2013)
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Recommendations
Recommendation 1 |
The committee recommends that Transport Canada, together with the Department of Finance, bring all relevant stakeholders to the table to establish a National Air Travel Strategy to increase and facilitate air travel in Canada. |
Recommendation 2 | The committee recommends that Transport Canada revise and update the National Airports System. The updated system should:
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Recommendation 3 | The committee recommends that Transport Canada establish and implement a plan to phase-out ground rents completely over time for airports that are part of the National Airport System. |
Recommendation 4 | The committee recommends that, concurrent with the long-term plan of ending airport ground rents, Transport Canada transfer federally owned airports in the National Airports System to the airport authorities that operate them. |
Recommendation 5 | The committee recommends that the airport authorities of each of the large volume airports lead an initiative to facilitate flight connections at the large volume airports. Such systems should ensure that the luggage of a transiting traveller is forwarded directly to the traveller’s ultimate destination without the traveller’s intervention. Such systems should also require the traveller to pass through security screening and customs and immigration only once during their journey. |
Recommendation 6 | The committee recommends that Citizenship and Immigration Canada meet with the directors of major Canadian airports and work to establish a full transit visa program for international travellers to connect through Canadian airports. |