Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
Yes. Unfortunately for the licensed trades in Canada—pilots, aviation maintenance engineers—we do not use PLAR. We don't care about competence. As I alluded to earlier, an AME working in Germany for Lufthansa for 20 years on an Air Canada aircraft, a 737, comes here to work on exactly that same aircraft and is not granted a licence because she didn't study exactly the same thing in Berlin that Transport Canada requires Canadian colleges to teach. That individual's option is to go back to school for two years, because there's no gap training in Canadian colleges. They don't have gap training for that one identified gap.
We have a system at CCAA for online assessment of foreign workers in non-licensed trades that works well. For the licensed trades, which are the most in demand—AMEs and pilots—it does not, because of Transport Canada restrictions. I'll stop there, but I'm happy to elaborate.