Transport committee  In our situation, we have an SMS. When hired, every employee is made familiar with the vessels but at the same time, they have to sign off on our SMS. Once their name is on that piece of paper, a Transport Canada officer will say they are so and so, and see they have signed off o

Transport committee  That's a culture that's been developing. We formed our association in 1977. I was one of the original founders of the CPVA, and it was to educate, because we're carrying the most valuable cargo of all—humans. We formed this association so we could better educate ourselves and at

Transport committee  Well, it's the same thing. I have a question from Ms. Morin about increased traffic with an SMS. Well, you know what? We have rules of the road for the Great Lakes, and we have our collision regulations, and every operator on board a commercial vessel has to know those rules of t

Transport committee  There's a whole bunch. But I've got one in particular if you want.

Transport committee  The regulation where it's required that the time aboard needed to keep your certificate once you've got your certificate as captain, mate, whatever. The time requirement at present is a total of 360 days over a five-year period or a continuous 90 days in the last year. This is a

Transport committee  It's a regulation. It's in the regulations. It really doesn't make sense. There's another one, lightship surveys. With the lightship surveys, every year an inspector will come and make you sign a piece of paper. Have you done any major changes to your vessels? No. So every five

Transport committee  Okay. The point is while they were measuring, when they were redoing the measuring of the boat, the marine architect who was on hand, who I was paying, turned to the inspector and he said, “I could measure this boat three times and come up with three different answers.” The Trans

Transport committee  There are quite a few regulations that have come out in the last several years that have really not been looked at by the regulators to see how it would affect the industry. There are a lot of regulations that have come out that affect the operators to the degree where they're pu

Transport committee  I have an SMS on board my vessels. We were made aware of a template that was being used in Australia, so we basically looked at that template and worked on it to apply it to our own operation on our vessels here in Ottawa. But prior to an SMS or even hearing about an SMS, we ha