title: Canadian Senate Standing Committee on Transport and Communication
text: # Canadian Senate Standing Committee on Transport and Communication
  
  The Standing Senate Committee on Transport and Communications (TRCM) is one of the oldest standing committees of the Senate of Canada, having been first created in 1867 under the name of the Banking, Commerce and Railways Committee. In 1945, it was recommended that a committee on Transport and Communications be created.
  
  ## Responsibilities
  
  Over the years, the mandate has evolved, but subject areas for which the Committee is responsible include:
  
  * Transport and communications by land, air, water, and space, be this by radio, telephone, telegraph, wire, cable, microwave, wireless, television, satellite, broadcasting, post, or any other means, method or form.
  * Tourist traffic.
  * Common carriers; and
  * Navigation, shipping and navigable waters.
  
  ## Members
  
  | Caucus | Member | Province |
  | - | - | - |
  | Conservative | Michael L. MacDonald, deputy chair | NS |
  | Conservative | Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu | QC |
  | Conservative | Norman Doyle | NL |
  | Conservative | Stephen Greene | NS |
  | Conservative | Bob Runciman | ON |
  | Independent Senators Group | Patricia Bovey | MB |
  | Independent Senators Group | René Cormier | NB |
  | Independent Senators Group | Rosa Galvez | QC |
  | Independent Senators Group | Diane Griffin | PEI |
  | Independent Senators Group | Nancy Hartling | NB |
  | Independent Senators Group | Raymonde Saint-Germain | QC |
  | Senate Liberal | Dennis Dawson, chair | QC |
  | Senate Liberal | Art Eggleton | ON |
  | Senate Liberal | Terry Mercer | NS |
  
  The Representative of the Government in the Senate and Leader of the Opposition in the Senate are both ex-officio members of the committee.
  
  