Transport committee  Here it's clear that the employee is protected against any legal, disciplinary or other measures that might be taken, whether it be administrative procedures or document suspension measures, and we would now include reprisals, as provided in revised G-3.1 in subsection (4). In E

Transport committee  Mr. Bélanger, we still intend to retain those provisions.

Transport committee  I don't understand your question. You said it's in the regulations?

Transport committee  I have no objection. It doesn't affect it. As I told you, it was already protected, so it just makes it a little bit stronger.

Transport committee  Indeed, Mr. Laframboise, we re-examined the entire act following the revised amendment G-3.1, which was adopted last week. Protection is there for people who report within a business that has a safety management system, of course. Those who want to use the universal voluntary rep

Transport committee  Mr. Laframboise, I can read you subsection 5.397(4), which states: (4) Information reported under the program referred to in subsection 5.395(1) may not be used against the person who reported it in any legal, disciplinary or other proceedings. I think that's quite serious pr

Transport committee  It does to a certain extent when people are working within an SMS environment and reporting and they have an employer they'll be protecting. Mr. Laframboise's concern was on why we don't have a parallel in the other system. We said we didn't think of putting in a parallel G-3.1 r

Transport committee  If you are an employee working for a certificate holder, all certificate holders will have SMS requirements, so there'll be internal reporting. If you do report, you are required to report first through your SMS and you are covered or protected. The other universal, non-punitiv

Transport committee  In legislative drafting, Mr. Carrier, the word “person” may be used to designate a corporation, an individual or an association. The word encompasses virtually everything. In the case of subsection (2), which mentions that the minister may designate a body, that can be a person,

Transport committee  I agree with you.

Transport committee  Yes, amendment NDP-11 deals with the universal voluntary non-punitive reporting program. It has nothing to do with flight data analysis. This is a program where anybody can report voluntarily. I believe Mr. Julian's motion is that they would like to remove that right for operat

Transport committee  Indeed, Mr. Fast, nothing prevents authorities from taking action based on information they have obtained outside of the system. Nothing prevents a private party from taking up a lawsuit. Nothing prevents any action being done against those individuals or those companies if it's

Transport committee  This is exactly the same type of information we're talking about. It's the FDR, except that in this case there's an agreement between the minister and the operator, with consultation with the employees, so the information can be downloaded to Transport for the advancement of avia

Transport committee  That is correct.

Transport committee  Correct. But most likely at that level, Mr. Bélanger--that type of equipment is so expensive--it's a commercial operator with a SMS.