Transport committee  To give you a simple overview, the International Civil Aviation Organization sets the standards and guidelines for aviation security, as with many other areas of our work. Transport Canada transfers that into regulations. Those regulations apply to the Canadian Air Transport Secu

Transport committee  I don't know exactly, of course, all of the details around it, but certainly we set requirements.

Transport committee  We set requirements for security. We set requirements for what must be done by the security screening agents. Also, CATSA, the crown corporation, is responsible for setting service standards and meeting official language obligations. If you have a complaint, there's certainly a w

Transport committee  Maybe I'll start with that and then ask Mr. Bourdon to amplify. We have taken that recommendation very seriously. It's an important and good thought, in terms of how we look at the balance that's appropriate between audits of safety management systems and other types of inspect

Transport committee  There is an inspection program, which was actually started in 2011. It focused on increased inspection at transloading facilities. The basic concept of the program for transporting dangerous goods is that if you classify your goods correctly and put them into the right container

Transport committee  To generally speak to the process, the regulatory process is laid down in cabinet directions. We carry out the process in a variety of ways, through a regularized formal approach, with our civil aviation advisory council. The process is different for each set of regulations. It m

Transport committee  Well, as I say, the department goes through a regulatory process and looks at the need to get information. If there's new information coming in, the department is always willing to look at the new information.

Transport committee  In general, across our modes where safety management systems are applied, they are an additional set of distinct regulations that apply to the particular topic of how a company manages itself and requires certain provisions on how documents are kept and how training is done and a

Transport committee  I think that's a very good way to phrase it. Basically the same thing has happened with most of our regulatory regime over the years. You learn lessons; you find areas; technology changes; we learn more; we update the regulatory regimes. Safety management systems, while they'

Transport committee  In general, the issue arose in the fall. We brought together two different types of actions. One was a protective direction that was put in place. The other was to require shippers to do up-to-date testing of their goods, their crude oil products. If they do not have an immediate

Transport committee  Again, all of the recommendations in the report, except for one element of one recommendation, have been completed and are closed. The one element remaining is the clarification of roles and responsibilities between the different modes that do transportation of dangerous goods in

Transport committee  Yes, the original recommendation was to clarify roles and responsibilities. That was looked at as requiring an update of MOUs and wouldn't take an awful lot of time. As we looked more closely at the way the system was being managed and the way we were using our transportation of

Transport committee  All recommendations in the 2012 audit have been completed.

Transport committee  In general we've accelerated work on the suite of recommendations that were enabled by the new provisions in the Railway Safety Act, which came into force in 2013. That work is well under way. The regulations I mentioned have already gone to the Gazette. The safety management sy

Transport committee  Sorry, no. The administrative monetary penalties have been published in the Gazette , part I. They will come into force if the decision is made by the Treasury Board to put them in, one would anticipate in the fall, based on the comment period, the input that's provided, and then