Transport committee  I guess I have a bit of a concern with broad statistics. I certainly have a concern with the statement that most accidents happen in the north. I truly do with that statement. However, without a little more detail on the statistics as to the classes of carriers that we're talking

Transport committee  Certainly we just finished our annual general meeting in April, and we had a presentation by the Transportation Safety Board, right up to date including 2013 statistics. It showed us we were actually on a continued decrease in accident rates. I'm at a little bit of a loss to—

Transport committee  Certainly, I can obtain that.

Transport committee  If you ask Transport Canada, they'll tell you that it's had no effect on safety. If you ask the airlines, I don't think they feel it's had any significant impact on safety either.

Transport committee  If I could briefly speak to the territories, in all three territories, Yukon initially, the Northwest Territories, and then Nunavut when it was devolved, all of the airports were transferred from Transport Canada to the territorial governments. It's the three territorial governme

Transport committee  Correct. They've done a fabulous job of maintaining what was transferred to—

Transport committee  They are all safety-related.

Transport committee  They're external to the organization, yes. They are absolutely external to the organization.

Transport committee  I can't talk to specific carriers and their intentions. Certainly we as an organization endorse the move to the 1:50 ratio where appropriate.

Transport committee  I wouldn't categorize it as being safer. I would call it as safe, provided the exit arrangement on the particular aircraft is suitable.

Transport committee  Greenland put a tremendous amount of money into their system. Actually, the Danes put a tremendous amount of money into Greenland's system. They have a considerable number of paved runways. A lot of them are still shorter, because they are using STOL aircraft on them. They also h

Transport committee  If you had asked me a few years ago, I would have said that they're probably seeing someone very close to annually. However, in response to personnel issues, which we discussed earlier, Transport has moved to a very complicated matrix that evaluates the risk of a carrier and sets

Transport committee  It's really difficult to get into a lot of these remote locations unannounced. You pretty much know when somebody is coming.

Transport committee  But shall we say “unscheduled” ones? Yes.

Transport committee  Non-punitive reporting is absolutely essential. It's very unfortunate that the actual legislative protection for that has not made it through on a couple of occasions.