Transport committee  I'm having some trouble answering your question, Mr. Laframboise. With the coming of the SMS, we would normally expect an increase in the number of incidents reported. That is what we see. We have the Civil Aviation Daily Occurrence Reporting System, the CADORS, and I don't think

Transport committee  They have to make reports. I really don't understand this, and it is the opposite of what I just told you. If people in a company report an incident, they have to explain to Transport Canada how that incident was dealt with by using their SMS. If a company reports something, wha

Transport committee  Actually, the data is not given to Transport Canada. It has to be analyzed by the airline itself, first and foremost. We go into the company to look at how the data is analyzed, but the company remains proprietary to the data. I should mention that it is a trend now to try to sh

Transport committee  Excuse me, could you explain the acronym that you're using?

Transport committee  I will just comment on the philosophy behind our enforcement policy with regard to SMS companies, or companies regulated by SMS. The philosophy is that if a company breaks a rule or a regulation and it is found that this is what happened, we want to give them a chance to analyz

Transport committee  There were a number of situations. Every year we do a lot of enforcements. In fact, we publish all of those enforcement actions on our website. We did suspend the certificates of operation of a number of carriers. In other cases, we gave 30 days notice of suspension, which mean

Transport committee  Do we have what? Excuse me...?

Transport committee  Yes, there are. As a matter of practice, in most cases we issue a press release when the certificate is suspended.

Transport committee  It's very important that Transport Canada ensure that the regulations are enforced throughout the country, and that includes the north. I understand that the situation, the weather sometimes and all of that, is more difficult in very isolated areas, but we must make sure that it

Transport committee  The recruitment is actually being done at the local level by our Transport Canada offices across the country. What we have discussed with the civil aviation management team is the importance of getting rid of the vacancies we have now, because it has left a perception that we wer

Transport committee  Certainly, yes. But it's not only our role to help industry, because we are the regulator, after all. We certainly need to provide some help, certainly we need to provide material--lots of documentation--to help them get started. We're also working with their associations, wheth

Transport committee  Mr. Laframboise, if you agree, I would rather provide that information in writing because it is a field I am not at all familiar with.

Transport committee  It is hard for us to find that out. The airlines would know that. I will agree to send you the regulations about these pilots and tell you how those regulations are applied.

Transport committee  Yes, of course.

Transport committee  First of all, I need to clarify. You mentioned delegation to large air carriers. We're not delegating anything to large carriers; we're making them more accountable. It goes back to the theory of the safety management system. You can only make major improvements in the safety are