Will Greaves
- Career
- Associate professor of political science at the University of Victoria
- Political Experience
- Elected Member of Parliament for Victoria in the 2025 Canadian federal election
- Notable
- Son and grandson of diplomats in Canada's foreign service
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Laurel Collins won with 18,877 votes (24.9%)
Total votes cast: 75,768
Thank you for those remarks and for reminding us how far we've come in terms of our own relationship with our local environment. Could you elaborate on the point you just raised about recycling, please? What are the barriers there for some of those recycling measures to be adopted, if I understood you, while the vessels are in Canadian waters?
I appreciate it.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good afternoon, colleagues. It's a pleasure to join you, as always. Thank you to the witnesses for being with us today as well. My question to begin with is for Mr. Penner. Good afternoon, Mr. Penner. As I'm sure you're aware, my riding of Victoria is home to the busiest cruise ship port in Canada. We welcomed just under one million visitors in 2025, and we're always keen [more]
It's noted. Thank you. I'm shifting gears slightly. In terms of the economic impact of the cruise industry for Canadian ports, we have certain kinds of data related to direct employment and sometimes the direct economic benefits of cruise passengers, for example, when they dock in a particular community. Does your organization have more robust data about the indirect economic impact of cruises [more]
Thank you, gentlemen. I'd like both of you to clarify something. What is the current capacity of your respective ports? What would their maximum handling capacity be if they had all the necessary resources? Let's start with the Port of Montreal, and then we'll see what the situation is for the Port of Saguenay.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good morning, colleagues. Thank you to the witnesses for joining us today. Good morning. Prime Minister As we've heard before in conversations in this committee, and as we've heard extensively from theand from the government, it's clear, I think, that we're all on the same page. Canada must diversify its trading partners, and we have to increase our exports around the [more]
Mr. Salmons, I'll ask the same question of you.
Good morning to all of our witnesses, or at least good morning from British Columbia. Thank you for being here. I'd like to build on my colleague's question about some of the regulatory or red tape obstacles to your ports' efficiency and expansion. I might ask both of the representatives of our ports here today to say if there is a single nonfinancial action that the federal government could [more]
That's correct. Outside of new investments, what single action would have the biggest impact that the federal government could take for you?