Transport committee  As worded in the proposed amendment—the existing proposed amendment, not the suggested change—those are exactly the words that are in CTAISB. That has been imported directly from CTAISB into what our amendment is. So this would also amend CTAISB.

Transport committee  It's being pointed out that the wording as it exists does allow flexibility. If it's hard this way, then we have no choice but to dedicate the resources to such investigations even if they don't want to participate or we don't want to participate, for whatever reason; whereas, th

Transport committee  I can give you a practical example. One of the things we do is investigate glider accidents. In Quebec, glider accidents are actually.... They do what's called a power pilot scholarship. They make contracts with civilian power companies that teach the kids how to actually fly,

Transport committee  A report that would go to the minister might have to be amended, if you understand what we're saying, for security or operational reasons, and that's just information that might be used contrary to the best interests of the Canadian Forces in their operations. This would have to

Transport committee  That's what we would read that as.

Transport committee  The only thing that I think there is some reticence about is if there's information in there that also might compromise an ally or something of that nature, or if there's information in it that would be proprietary in nature. In order to understand what had actually occurred, we

Transport committee  Just in our brief discussion in the chance that we've had to take a look at this.... This obviously is a statutory requirement, which the minister is presently doing on an administrative basis. That's our only observation. It just statutorily makes the administrative process that

Transport committee  Yes. You've actually summarized it very well. There are circumstances in the past 10 years where we've had some difficulty trying to conduct an investigation because a contractor has been reluctant to either share information or do the things that we want them to do. Under the c

Transport committee  If something were to come into a public court, then section 22 would apply. If something were happening inside the Canadian Forces, section 23 would apply. We haven't removed the ability of a court to look at the public interest in justice and the privilege associated with that.

Transport committee  Process A would be initiated exterior of the Canadian Forces because it would be a case where we would have an on-board recorder, and somebody would say that they want to discover what's on it. They would go about getting it by going to a court. There's a set of regulations in se

Transport committee  It's the proper administration of justice. We're proposing a slightly different test in this amendment. Currently, the public interest is weighed by a judge under section 22. Then in section 23, in our proposed amendment, we're saying that when we're weighing...and that provision

Transport committee  I'd like to add something to that. When civilians supply us with information, this is going to allow us to protect that information. The information that's provided to us would only be for accident investigation purposes. With that in mind, they're more likely to share informat

Transport committee  Our reports are a compilation of all the facts that we've gathered in our analysis. From the analysis we make findings and preventive measures. Particularly for detailed information, we're not obligated to publish that in our reports. So we don't say, “He said this, she said tha

Transport committee  It depends on the contract. If you're a ticket-buying passenger on Air Canada, no, but if there was a contract in place that had a special military application for an Air Canada appliance or aviation resource, then it might. So let's say we were contracting to X company and the

Transport committee  I will let you take this one.