Transport Action Atlantic’s Annual General Meeting will be happening via Zoom on Saturday, May 31, 2025. The meeting will begin at 1pm (13h00) Atlantic time.
If you want to attend, you will need to register before the meeting begins. If you’re on our mailing list, you should already have received an invitation by email with a link to register. If you didn’t, please use the link below.
Register in advance for the AGM Zoom meeting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
For those of you planning to join us, here is the tentative agenda for Saturday’s virtual meeting. Our AGM will cover the usual required business for the year, and then we’re planning to shift to an open roundtable discussion about several key transportation topics in our region. We’d love to hear your thoughts on these issues!
TRANSPORT ACTION ATLANTIC
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Saturday, 31 May 2025 1300 hours (Atlantic)
VIA ZOOM
TENTATIVE AGENDA
- Call to order/welcome/regrets
- Adoption of agenda
- Minutes of previous AGM (2024) – as circulated – and business arising
- President’s report
- Vice-President’s report
- Treasurer’s report
- Membership Report
- Nomination and election of directors
- Roundtable discussion of regional transportation issues
- Transit ridership is showing encouraging growth throughout Atlantic Canada – but can the momentum be sustained? Are the three levels of government doing enough to discourage the car culture?
- Strategies to achieve key goals for VIA Rail’s Maritime service: What will it take to convince Ottawa to make the modest investment needed for the CN Newcastle Subdivision? How can we achieve a return to daily Ocean service in the near term?
- How long will it take for the election promises regarding Confederation Bridge tolls and Marine Atlantic rates to be fulfilled? (It took the Trudeau Government nearly nine years to deliver on the 2015 campaign promise to address the Marine Atlantic 65% cost recovery requirement.)
- What does the future hold for the dormant Cape Breton rail line, now that the Nova Scotia government has discontinued paying the owner to keep the rails in place? Does Ottawa still retain an obligation to maintain service as promised in 1993?Has the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador reminded the federal government of its ongoing obligation to protect and maintain the cross-island bus service as stipulated in the 1988 Roads for Rails agreement?
- Why are the New Brunswick and federal governments so reluctant to commit to a reliable year-round ferry service to connect Campobello Island to the rest of Canada?
- New business
- Adjournment by 1530
The minutes of the 2024 meeting will be posted for review shortly on the Documents page of our website.
