Translation of "Transport de voyageurs pour compte d'autrui " (French → English) :

(a) the carriage of goods for hire or reward by a motor vehicle or vehicle combination intended solely for the carriage by road of goods and having a maximum permissible total laden weight of over 7,5 tonnes;

(a) to transport goods either for hire or reward, or on own account, by means of a motor vehicle or articulated vehicle combination intended exclusively for the carriage of goods by road,

The principal business of Veolia Transport is the operation of passenger transport services on behalf of local, regional and national authorities.

"transport undertaking" means any natural person, any legal person, any association or group of persons without legal personality, whether profit-making or not, or any official body, whether having its own legal personality or being dependent upon an authority having such a personality, which engages in carriage by road, whether for hire or reward or for own account;

I see it as a precursor to the re-establishment of passenger rail service on the CP main line going all the way to Toronto, and I can't believe that a party from western Canada would be against the reinstitution of passenger rail services through cities like Regina as well as Calgary and other smaller communities on the CP line (1540) Mr. Jim Gouk: I'm talking specifically about Calgary to Vancouver, where there is a tourism service, where VIA will be nothing more than a tourism service by virtue of evidence of the rate structure from Edmonton to Vancouver.

Those bus companies are tax paying, non-subsidized, private sector operators trying to make a living, trying to transport tourists to the hon. member's area, that he talked about being so necessary for his local economy.