Hon. Vic Toews, P.C., M.P. Minister of Public Safety Sir Wilfrid Laurier Building, 13th floor 340 Laurier Ave. West Ottawa, ON K1A 0P8 Dear Minister Toews, It has come to my attention that CBSA will be charging Amtrak an annual fee of $500,000 in order to run two trains per day on the Vancouver-Seattle-Portland run. [...]
Archive for the ‘Transportation’ Category
Encourage Environmentally Friendly Rail Travel
Monday, September 27th, 2010Downgraded Greyhound Service – letter to Minister Baird
Monday, February 8th, 2010As you know Greyhound Canada has been cutting back service to rural communities across Canada. We have certainly felt the effect here in southern British Columbia.
Atamanenko Urges Public Participation in Public Meetings about Greyhound
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009BC Passenger Transportation Board holds public meetings on proposed schedule changes Castlegar, BC – Alex Atamanenko, MP – BC Southern Interior – Greyhound Canada has modified its application to reduce service to the West Kootenay region, according to the BC Passenger Transportation Board. In conjunction, there will be series of public meetings held to which [...]
Trail Regional Airport and Pacific Coastal – 2010 Olympics
Friday, October 16th, 2009Meeting with Minister Baird – DENIED OTTAWA – MP Alex Atamanenko (BC Southern Interior) was informed Wednesday by Ministry of Transport officials that a meeting Atamanenko was trying to organise between federal Transport Minister John Baird, Gord De Rosa (City of Trail Councillor) and Quentin Smith, President of Pacific Coastal Airlines, was denied by the [...]
Atamanenko Says “no” to Greyhound Service Reduction
Friday, June 5th, 2009Local NDP MP urges the Passenger Transportation Board to refuse Greyhound’s application to reduce service in southern BC Castlegar, BC – Alex Atamanenko, MP – BC Southern Interior – According to the application summary found on the British Columbia Passenger Transportation Board (PTB) website, Greyhound Canada is applying to reduce service from two daily busses [...]
Regional Airports
Friday, May 29th, 2009Dear Minister Baird,
I write to bring to your attention that a number of rural MPs recently met with representatives of the Regional Community Airports Coalition of Canada in Ottawa.