Transport committee  Mr. Chairman, there's no question that the role of the regulator in an SMS environment is going to change a bit and probably grow to become more of an audit function. But I don't recall in my remarks ever saying that there would be anything contradictory to what we've said here,

Transport committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, nowhere in my reading of the amendments, because they are not exact, did I read that we're reducing inspectors and that we're replacing inspectors with CEOs. Let's be clear, that's not at all written in the act. What we're trying to achieve

Transport committee  Mr. Chair, Vancouver's behaviour is best asked of Vancouver.

Transport committee  They are, sir.

Transport committee  That particular question is best addressed to Vancouver directly.

Transport committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The whole point of updating and modernizing Canada's Aeronautics Act and including designated organizations and SMS is exactly as Mr. Watson pointed out, Mr. Chair. It's to look forward, to take mitigating action, to think ahead and not have to have thes

Transport committee  You have to separate the aircraft from the aerodrome, if you will. They are two very separate entities. So the airlines are responsible for the safety and maintenance of their aircraft, but the aerodrome, the facility itself, is where the airport authority takes responsibility.

Transport committee  Yes.

Transport committee  Yes. The Canadian Airports Council represents 45 airports in Canada, including Canada's eight largest airports. We have a board of directors of 14.

Transport committee  We practise both safety and security at airports. I gave the example of an incident in the taxi area of the runway where perhaps the lighting or the markings need to be changed a bit, and both the pilot and the people on the ground, the airport authority personnel, see that some

Transport committee  Mr. Chairman, thank you. I would just say, Mr. Chairman, to the committee member, that you should be careful about the use of the word “exclusively”, because nowhere in the act does it say, in our reading of it, that the powers would be given exclusively to anyone. As we outline

Transport committee  Yes, we have a system in place to overlook security and make sure it operates today.

Transport committee  Thank you for the question. It's a difficult leap to make, to go from one's perception of what an airport's responsibility is in securing the environment today to that of a safety management system. You need to compare apples to apples. I don't know that the comparison is quite

Transport committee  A designated organization would be an organization that, in Transport Canada's opinion, has the capacity to carry out a safety management system. Right now in Canada, there is one in aviation, that's the CBAA. They are a designated organization under this act, if you applied this

Transport committee  They could be airport authorities.