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Garneau: Transport Canada Sets Airline Legroom Rules Strictly for Evacuation Safety
“Airplanes have to provide a certain leg room, elbow room spacing for safety reasons, in case you have to evacuate the airplane quickly. And that is a Transport Canada requirement. Now, we establish minimums.”
Garneau: Canada will align transportation technologies with the US over Europe
“I think that every, Europe has its own solutions based on, on its geography and its densities. I think we will probably have some similarities, but I think we'll probably be more like the United States, because we do interact with them a huge amount, and we ha…”
Garneau: Shared mobility, public transit, and autonomous vehicles will directly compete
“Alors, je crois que les systèmes comme Uber ou les systèmes où on partage le transport, les systèmes de transport public, tous ces systèmes-là vont se concurrencer et essayer d'établir une position. Et en même temps, les véhicules automatisés vont s'en venir”
Garneau: Canada was the third country to operate a satellite in space
“Canada was the third country in space, which a lot of people don't know”
Garneau: Canada joined NASA space shuttle missions because it built Canadarm
“The reason we were invited to become astronauts and to fly on the space shuttle is because We had designed the robotic arm that is on the space shuttle, and, in fact, part of it was designed here in Montreal, and, ah, the, ah, United States, NASA wanted to tha…”
Garneau: Technical professionals are underrepresented in Canada's House of Commons
“There are not very many technical people in the House of Commons of our country, and I thought, ah, I could bring a dimension that is perhaps missing.”
Garneau: Via Rail owns only 3% of its track, yielding to freight
“Because Via Rail only owns three percent of this track. It rents the rest from CN and CP. And it has to stop when there's a freight train that goes by.”
Garneau: Canadian Government Committed $500M to Expand Regional Internet Access
“Notre gouvernement a pris un engagement de cinq cents millions de dollars To continue to, de, de rendre les régions plus accessibles à l'Internet.”
Garneau: Transport Canada provides an Alberta test facility for drone technology
“We have, there's a, now a test facility in Alberta, ah, in a small town where you can test your drone technology. So, we are providing infrastructure for You know somebody who has a great idea in developing a drone in their garage needs to go out and test it.”