Transport committee  I'm told the radiation exposure is about 50 times less than a cellphone.

Transport committee  Fifty times less than a cellphone, and that's why I keep my BlackBerry--

Transport committee  Well, I'm not a doctor, but Health Canada thinks there is no health issue whatsoever--

Transport committee  There is no x-ray.

Transport committee  Again, I will only speak to the machine selected by CATSA. That's the one that was analyzed by Health Canada. There is no health issue at all with this machine. There are no x-rays. I have to emphasize that, because for some manufacturers that Mr. Volpe mentioned, they do emit x-

Transport committee  Because of those sensitivities, we left the machine as an alternate choice; it's between the machine or the pat-down if you are selected for secondary screening.

Transport committee  There are not many countries using this now, but there are many countries considering using it.

Transport committee  Well, that's premature because we don't have the program now. But for whatever we do, we always put our attention first on the eight major airports of Canada. They carry above 85% of the passenger traffic in Canada. We call those the class 1 airports. From east to west, these are

Transport committee  It's offered by different corps of police, but that is not a specific problem.

Transport committee  I think they are well integrated as a source of information with all of those organizations. On the local site, in Montreal, for instance, there are communications daily, I would say, between the Montreal police and the airport management, especially the director of security of t

Transport committee  Unfortunately, I cannot answer all of your questions, and there were many of them. We have been in the security business for a long time in Transport Canada, but more so after the Air India bombing. For many, many years, the approach internationally has been to treat everybody t

Transport committee  If there is anything else we can do to improve communications, we will certainly consider your recommendations.

Transport committee  We don't control everything about it per se, but we certainly are an important player in the development of threat and risk assessments.

Transport committee  There are other people involved; for instance, the Department of Public Safety, the RCMP, CSIS--and CATSA, because they do attend our exercises.

Transport committee  I would say that we work extremely well together. I have travelled a lot around the world on the subject of aviation security. I have not seen a single country--