Thank you, Mr. Chair.
To continue in the same vein, what we hope to achieve with the SMS is a decrease in the number of accidents. That is the ultimate objective of all that.
Before me I have the Transport Canada objectives for the number of accidents per 10,000 flight hours. I can see that for 2010-2011, the target rate was 6.5 accidents, for 2012-2013 it was 6.5 and for 2013-2014 it is 6.7. So there is an increase. Transport Canada's targets for accident rates are established by flight hour. Even if there are more flights now than there were before, the objectives are calculated in flight hours.
Unfortunately, the majority of accidents occur in the Canadian North.
Mr. Nourse and Mr. Gooch, I would like to know what you think about that. Do you think it is reasonable that Transport Canada has accident rate objectives that are on the rise? That doesn't make sense to me if we have safety management systems that work.
Mr. Gooch, earlier you spoke about the safety management system and its advantages. However, concretely, there are more and more accidents per flight hour.
Do you have any comments to make on that? What do you think of that? Do you think it makes sense that accident rate objectives are increasing?