Transport committee  There currently are standards of certification, but of course we want to make sure there's a full enabling authority for the minister to have his say, in terms of clean air and emission standards.

Transport committee  It's already provided for in the proposed changes. There's some sort of delegation to the municipalities to handle this with Transport Canada. It's already covered.

Transport committee  I'll ask our official legal counsel to answer this. Joan.

Transport committee  Yes, it did.

Transport committee  I would not use “self-regulation”. We believe it is an additional requirement, where we ask the industry to do additional work with us. But it's not delegation, and it's not self-regulation--definitely not--because they currently have to abide by a series of requirements, and we're adding an additional requirement.

Transport committee  I'm told it's an administrative mistake, and the actual speech from Mr. Preuss will be sent to you electronically.

Transport committee  All we have are the notes. There may be some parts of the speech that had been planned for second reading, but that is not at all the same document.

Transport committee  I do not have the same document as you.

Transport committee  I believe you are referring to Mr. Preuss's speech.

Transport committee  Yes. We started to consult before September 11, and at that time the proposed changes were mainly the same as you see here, except there were more security amendments to enhance the security provisions. When September 11 happened they decided to fast-track those proposed changes on the security side.

Transport committee  We have some documents that may be made available, yes.

Transport committee  I believe that some are still on the website, under CARAC.

Transport committee  No.

Transport committee  We have prepared what we call an administrative consolidation. We have taken the current act and superimposed the new proposed changes, identifying them with grey shading. It gives you an idea. We could provide this kind of document to the committee to give you an idea of the current legislation and the proposed amendments.

Transport committee  It will go from letters of warning to assurance of compliance agreements with companies, that if they don't comply with the regulations the fines will be doubled up, to the suspension or cancellation of certificates. So there will be more requirements and more enforcement tools in the tool box in the future if we accept those proposed changes.