Public Accounts committee  No. I think you hit all the major points. It's important to note that what the Auditor General pointed out was that we weren't appropriately overseeing our plans and making sure that we followed through on them. Since that observation, we have implemented more rigorous planning

Public Accounts committee  I'm sorry; I can't locate the number you have quoted in the report, but what I suspect you're doing is using two different numbers: one is the number of inspector positions we have, and the other number is the actual number of inspectors on staff. We still have the same number

Public Accounts committee  Unfortunately, a country-by-country comparison is not something we have available to us. IATA amalgamated all of North America in those safety statistics. However, our accident rates have decreased by 25% over the past 10 years or so, and I would be quite confident in saying that

Public Accounts committee  As Ms. Biguzs indicated, the plan is fairly comprehensive and comprises some 61 different management commitments we've made to improve the program. Just briefly, here are some of the things we've done. We developed a new risk indicator tool to allow us to assess companies and th

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Ms. Biguzs and members of the committee. The civil aviation safety program has always focused on addressing the highest-risk areas of the sector, and we feel it has succeeded in improving aviation safety. In fact, in 2011 Canada recorded the lowest number of accidents

Transport committee  Yes, it's largely related to the administrative efficiencies. In Transport Canada we centralize our accounts payable system. What came from the aviation safety area has now gone into the finance area of the organization, as well as some internal administrative changes that accoun

Transport committee  When we investigate or oversee an aviation operator, they have to demonstrate to us that whatever maintenance schedule they have for their aircraft respects Canadian laws and we assure ourselves that they do so. So they will submit to us a plan for the maintenance, both the line

Transport committee  I guess all I can say to that is that no matter who is providing the maintenance on whichever aircraft company, our level of oversight does not diminish in any way. Our oversight of the aviation service providers will continue in the same manner it always has, and we will insist

Environment committee  Mr. McKenzie answered the question correctly. We own three aircraft that are dedicated to that, but we do contract with PAL airlines in Newfoundland to do some surveillance there.

Environment committee  No, that is not something we have considered at this point. The Placentia Bay area is covered by the Eastern Canada Response Corporation, and we feel they have adequate capacity to cover the risks that we're asking them to cover.

Environment committee  It's a difficult one to answer. Certainly, if we look at the east coast of Canada, it has the largest number of traffic movements at this point, roughly about 3,000 vessel movements, as opposed to about 50 on the--

Environment committee  That's correct.

Environment committee  No, I don't think so. I know the coast guard has repositioned some resources as a result of that risk analysis, and I'll let Ms. Thomas answer that portion.

Environment committee  I'm sorry, I'm not aware of another study being done.

Environment committee  Okay. I'll have to look into that. I'm not aware of this particular study to which you're referring.