Transport committee  It's Chris Farmer in Moncton. I can only say what's been said earlier. It's very difficult to comment on that without any sort of context. Even if you look at it from an individual airport perspective, it would be the same sort of answer. I'm sorry.

Transport committee  In my opinion, it's certainly a more rigorous system now, because now we are being informed of when safety incidents happen within the airline as it relates to the airport, or if an incident happens at an airport, we get the safety report. Also, if there's a safety concern from t

Transport committee  I would say that. Again, it goes back to what I'm saying, that now SMS makes safety tangible. Before it was just a concept. Now we're seeing it as tangible results, something we can measure and act upon and do—

Transport committee  I would say yes, but keep in mind, as you've heard before, it's a cultural change. When we have that cultural change, then it's going to be an effective system.

Transport committee  Maybe I can help you out here. Prior to SMS when we had a regulatory inspection, they were inspecting to a standard. Keep in mind that at airports our infrastructure is static: concrete, asphalt, steel, and glass. An inspector would come in and ensure that the paint lines were c

Transport committee  Prior to SMS we would count on an annual inspection or we—

Transport committee  Yes, my apologies. It's Chris Farmer. I'm the director of operations at the Greater Moncton International Airport. Prior to SMS we could count on an annual inspection. Now we are looking at inspection of the SMS program itself, where what was traditionally done by an airport in

Transport committee  Prior to SMS frequency was a once-a-year annual inspection.

Transport committee  Right now we're being assessed on our SMS program. Please keep in mind that we are just at the end of the phase-in program for implementation, where we had an inspection after each phase, or a program validation after each phase. There were four phases to the program.

Transport committee  We don't send our risk assessment or other documentation to Transport Canada; that's internal.

Transport committee  That's right. They come in and we present it to Transport Canada.

Transport committee  Again, in our case, we have just completed our SMS program and we just had our last inspection in January.

Transport committee  That is correct.

Transport committee  I can answer that one, because I think it's pretty well standard at any airport. It would be any change to the operation of the airport, any change in the infrastructure, any sort of new carrier coming in with new equipment, anything that would change the normal stasis of the sys

Transport committee  Yes, it's Chris Farmer in Moncton.