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• Title:Time for a new national vision opportunities and constraints for Canada in the global movement of goods / report of the Standing Senate Committee on Transport and Communications.
  
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• Variant Title: Vers une nouvelle vision nationale : les occasions et les restrictions du Canada face au transport mondial des marchandises.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Bacon, Lise, 1934-
  Canada. Parliament. Senate. Standing Committee on Transport and Communications.
  Canadian Electronic Library (Firm)
  Canada Commons: Documents
  
• Published/Created:[Ottawa, Ont.] : Canada Senate, 2008
  

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• Library of Congress Subjects:Containerization--Government policy--Canada.
  Transportation and state--Canada.
  Container terminals--Canada.
  
• Subject(s):Electronic books.
  
• Description:1 online resource
  
• Series:Canadian Electronic Library. Documents collection.
  Canadian Electronic Library. Canadian public policy collection.
  
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• Notes:"June 2008."
  Chair: Lise Bacon.
  Issued as part of the Canadian Electronic Library, Documents collection, and Canadian public policy collection.
  Includes bibliographical references.
  
• Contents:Introduction
  Key areas of concern for witnesses
  A. Railway services
  Rail operations
  Impacts on downstream industry
  B. Trucking services
  The Canadian trucking industry
  Regional trucking issues
  C. Customs policy
  The shortage of empty containers
  The additional problem of the customs tariff
  The plight of Canadian agricultural producers
  D. Port Authority policy
  E. Shortsea shipping
  The potential for shortsea container shipping in Canada
  The impediments to shortsea container shipping in Canada
  F. Inland opportunities
  The case for inland container terminals
  Opportunities on the Prairies
  Opportunities in British Columbia
  G. Security and efficiency
  The security environment
  Efficiency issues
  Potential opportunities
  H. Information technology needs
  I. Environmental considerations
  The relative environmental impacts of different modes of transportation
  Environmental red tape
  J. Labour issues
  K. Federal intermodal policies and programs
  Federal infrastructure programs
  Transportation policy
  Relations between industry, government and other stakeholders
  The local impacts of federal policy
  Horizontal policy issues
  Conclusion
  Appendix A. Background on containerization
  Appendix B. Basic information on container transportation
  Appendix C. Canada's West Coast container ports
  Appendix D. Central Canadian container ports
  Appendix E. Canada's East Coast container ports
  Appendix F. Potential container ports in the North
  Appendix G. Witnesses and submissions.