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Transport committee If you ask Transport Canada, they'll tell you that it's had no effect on safety. If you ask the airlines, I don't think they feel it's had any significant impact on safety either.
June 17th, 2014Committee meeting
Stephen Nourse
Transport committee I guess I have a bit of a concern with broad statistics. I certainly have a concern with the statement that most accidents happen in the north. I truly do with that statement. However, without a little more detail on the statistics as to the classes of carriers that we're talking about and whether those carriers are actually SMS system carriers or not, I'm at a bit of a loss to comment on accident rates.
June 17th, 2014Committee meeting
Stephen Nourse
Transport committee Certainly we just finished our annual general meeting in April, and we had a presentation by the Transportation Safety Board, right up to date including 2013 statistics. It showed us we were actually on a continued decrease in accident rates. I'm at a little bit of a loss to—
June 17th, 2014Committee meeting
Stephen Nourse
Transport committee Certainly, I can obtain that.
June 17th, 2014Committee meeting
Stephen Nourse
Transport committee If I could briefly speak to the territories, in all three territories, Yukon initially, the Northwest Territories, and then Nunavut when it was devolved, all of the airports were transferred from Transport Canada to the territorial governments. It's the three territorial governments that handle them.
June 17th, 2014Committee meeting
Stephen Nourse
Transport committee Correct. They've done a fabulous job of maintaining what was transferred to—
June 17th, 2014Committee meeting
Stephen Nourse
Transport committee They are all safety-related.
June 17th, 2014Committee meeting
Stephen Nourse
Transport committee They're external to the organization, yes. They are absolutely external to the organization.
June 17th, 2014Committee meeting
Stephen Nourse
Transport committee I can't talk to specific carriers and their intentions. Certainly we as an organization endorse the move to the 1:50 ratio where appropriate.
June 17th, 2014Committee meeting
Stephen Nourse
Transport committee I wouldn't categorize it as being safer. I would call it as safe, provided the exit arrangement on the particular aircraft is suitable.
June 17th, 2014Committee meeting
Stephen Nourse
Transport committee Greenland put a tremendous amount of money into their system. Actually, the Danes put a tremendous amount of money into Greenland's system. They have a considerable number of paved runways. A lot of them are still shorter, because they are using STOL aircraft on them. They also have an extensive heliport program.
June 17th, 2014Committee meeting
Stephen Nourse
Transport committee I don't believe that—
June 17th, 2014Committee meeting
Stephen Nourse
Transport committee That's a good question. Actually to my knowledge, First Air has a very robust non-punitive policy in place.
June 17th, 2014Committee meeting
Stephen Nourse
Transport committee If you had asked me a few years ago, I would have said that they're probably seeing someone very close to annually. However, in response to personnel issues, which we discussed earlier, Transport has moved to a very complicated matrix that evaluates the risk of a carrier and sets the frequency of the inspections at anywhere between one and five years.
June 17th, 2014Committee meeting
Stephen Nourse
Transport committee It's really difficult to get into a lot of these remote locations unannounced. You pretty much know when somebody is coming.
June 17th, 2014Committee meeting
Stephen Nourse