Traduction de «The Low Price Air Fare Review » (Anglais → Français) :

I would like to briefly enumerate the key amendments to the Canada Transportation Act that were tabled in Parliament, as I mentioned, last March and which we are finally discussing today on the eve of a non-confidence vote (1325) The bill includes a new, modernized and simplified national transportation policy statement; new provisions addressing the approval and regulation of international bridges and tunnels; a new provision authorizing the Canadian Transportation Agency, on the recommendation of the minister, to regulate greater transparency in the advertisement of air fares, and I will come back to that in a moment; improvements t ...[+++]o and expansion of the recourses available to rail shippers while maintaining existing running rights; improvements to the policy framework for publicly funded passenger rail services; a public interest review process for mergers and acquisitions of all federally regulated transportation services; a provision allowing the Canadian Transportation Agency to address railway noise complaints, and I will come back to that as it is one aspect of the bill that we strongly support; legislative framework to consolidate the current powers of VIA Rail Canada; a reduction in the number of members of the Canadian Transportation Agency; and the integration of the air travel complaints function into its normal business.

3. The level of measures imposed to offset unfair pricing practices benefiting from a non-commercial advantage, shall not exceed the difference between the fares charged by the non-Community air carrier concerned and the air fares offered by the competing Community air carrier concerned, but should be less if such lesser level were to be adequate to remove the injury to the Community industry.

1. Unfair pricing practices shall be deemed to exist where state-controlled non-Community air carriers benefiting from a non-commercial advantage continuously charge on a particular air service to or from the Community air fares which are sufficiently below the normal fare rate, causing sustained, significant material injury to competing Community air carriers .

1. Unfair pricing practices shall be deemed to exist where state-controlled non-Community air carriers benefiting from a non-commercial advantage continuously charge on a particular air service to or from the Community air fares which are sufficiently below the normal fare rate to cause sustained, significant material injury to competing Community air carriers.

1. Unfair pricing practices shall be deemed to exist where state controlled non-Community air carriers benefitting from a non-commercial advantage continuously charge on a particular air service to or from a Community air fares which are lower than the normal fare rate.

At a minimum, the regulatory framework will require strict rules on capacity and financial soundness for existing carriers and new entrants, to ensure ongoing financial viability; the allocation between carriers of route and capacity rights to ensure adequate service to communities across the country, to avoid the abuse of monopoly power and the predatory dumping of excess capacity; ensuring that the management of airport, air navigation and other infrastructure is publicly accountable and supports a healthy industry; controls on air fares to ensure that, whi ...[+++]le the long run viability of the industry is assured, there is no price-gouging, with the flexibility to allow yield management and controlled discounting; the maintenance of Canadian ownership and control of airlines in Canada; protections for workers in the industry, particularly in the coming restructuring.