I want to just go on quickly to something very different.
Captain Blandford, in your non-compliance examples you said that,
ICAO requires state authority to set acceptable levels of safety
and
TC allows air operators to determine own acceptable levels of safety.
Are you really saying that air operators can decide for themselves what level of safety is acceptable and that there is really no oversight, nobody saying, “Hold on a minute—that's not acceptable”? Transport Canada has just said, “Well, whatever you guys think is acceptable is fine with us”?