{"id":11082,"date":"2015-06-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadianferry.ca\/cfoa-participates-in-parliamentary-study-about-infrastructure-in-canada\/"},"modified":"2015-06-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T04:00:00","slug":"cfoa-participates-in-parliamentary-study-about-infrastructure-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/canadianferry.ca\/fr\/cfoa-participates-in-parliamentary-study-about-infrastructure-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"CFOA Participates in Parliamentary Study about Infrastructure in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>June 18, 2015<\/p>\n<p>Today, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Communities released a report entitled\u00a0\"Updating Infrastructure in Canada: An Examination of Needs and Investments.\"<\/p>\n<p> CFA submitted a brief to the Committee outlining the needs for further investment in ferries and ferry infrastructure. \u00a0Our recommendations included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Amend the criteria of the New Building Canada Plan to allow all ferry transportation infrastructure to be eligible for funding.<\/li>\n<li>Eliminate the tariff on ferries shorter than 129 metres; or provide a temporary moratorium on the tariff until such time as the domestic shipbuilding industry is able to meet the needs of the ferry sector.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Our opinions were taken into consideration, and are noted in the Committee's Report, available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parl.gc.ca\/Content\/HOC\/Committee\/412\/TRAN\/Reports\/RP8042716\/412_TRAN_Rpt09_PDF\/412_TRAN_Rpt09-e.pdf\">ici pour<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 18, 2015 Today, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Communities released a report entitled\u00a0\"Updating Infrastructure in Canada: An Examination of Needs and Investments.\" CFA submitted a brief to the Committee outlining the needs for further investment in ferries and ferry infrastructure. \u00a0Our recommendations included: Amend the criteria of the New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadianferry.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadianferry.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadianferry.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadianferry.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadianferry.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/canadianferry.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadianferry.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadianferry.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadianferry.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}