Transport committee The act is quite broad in its language and we leave it to the wisdom of you legislators with respect to how broad that is.
February 14th, 2007Committee meeting
Art LaFlamme
Transport committee This legislation, as we understand it, provides for a more effective implementation of SMS, but Transport Canada has already proceeded with regulations requiring aviation companies to have a safety management system. So this legislation just goes beyond, I guess, the current regu
February 14th, 2007Committee meeting
Art LaFlamme
Transport committee With respect to the designated organization, we can understand that there might be application in such operations as sport parachuting or ultralight aircraft, but we don't see it applying to operations where, say, a passenger is paying a fee. I don't know what the future will h
February 14th, 2007Committee meeting
Art LaFlamme
Transport committee Those numbers are close. I can't say definitely that they're accurate, but they're close, yes.
February 14th, 2007Committee meeting
Art LaFlamme
Transport committee We could, but I'm wondering if that information is more appropriately obtained through other sources, because we're not the experts.
February 14th, 2007Committee meeting
Art LaFlamme
Transport committee We would add again that we support that the minister or the government must have a strong oversight system in place to make sure it's working as intended.
February 14th, 2007Committee meeting
Art LaFlamme
Transport committee If the people coming up into a system do not have the expertise, it makes it more essential to have an SMS. You need to have that umbrella framework so that those who are there have all the appropriate skill sets required to oversee the system. In our view, it's even more essenti
February 14th, 2007Committee meeting
Art LaFlamme
Transport committee We would want it any which way.
February 14th, 2007Committee meeting
Art LaFlamme
Transport committee If my recollections are correct, I believe that's true, but with certain conditions in place regarding training in particular. But it has been some time since I've looked at that.
February 14th, 2007Committee meeting
Art LaFlamme
Transport committee The Air Line Pilots Association strongly supports that Transport Canada should maintain an effective audit and inspection program. What we were saying here is that under SMS, the nature of the inspections and audits might be changed somewhat from the more traditional methods, wh
February 14th, 2007Committee meeting
Art LaFlamme