Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank our two witnesses for their presentations.
My first question is directed to Mr. Davidson and concerns the Civil Air Search and Rescue Association of Manitoba, or CASARA Manitoba. I couldn't help but think of the Minuteman Project where volunteers patrol the Mexican-US border with their guns and rifles to maintain law and order.
Mind you, I am not trying to compare CASARA-Manitoba with the Minuteman Project, but what about proper certification? Did you say that National Defence was responsible for the certification process? I would imagine that a person can't simply take their old 1950s airplane out of its hangar and take to the skies to answer a distress call. I would imagine your pilots must be certified. What does the certification process entail? If an old airplane crashes, we have two problems, not just one.