light aid detachment | LAD [Abbr.]

On the passenger side, we are at capacity in terms of extra equipment that can be put into a corridor movement like Ottawa to Toronto or Toronto to Montreal, and while there has been a little growth - as I said, 10 to 20 per cent - we have reached a ceiling there, and that is restricting the ability of companies like Via to move even more people.

As regards the first type of costs — the repair of physical damages — the Commission observes that no mechanism was set up to ensure that the size of the State guarantee would be reduced once the size of the damages suffered would be precisely established and once the indemnities would be paid out to HSY by the insurance companies.

The "black spots" identified when food aid was distributed in 1984-85 mean that it will be necessary to : ./. -3- - reinforce capacities for unloading and storing goods and getting them away from the ports, in which there were notable shortcomings ; - get rid of the main black spots encountered in rail and road links with isolated areas (we are thinking here of light infrastructure such as fords, temporary bridges, etc.) ; - ensure that the existing heavy transport fleet is well maintained (purchase of spare parts, strengthening of maintenance and repair services).