In that particular audit, we wanted to find out whether Transport Canada was providing sufficient oversight of the safety practices of the civil aviation companies in Canada, remembering, of course, that Canada has an excellent track record of civil aviation safety and remembering that the responsibility for air safety lies with those aviation companies. Transport Canada's role is as a regulatory overseer.
We found that they do, in fact, have an appropriate regulatory framework in place and an appropriate methodology in place, but there were weaknesses in many aspects of their actual inspection and surveillance activities.
Again, the responsibility for aviation safety rests with the industry, but Transport Canada has an important regulatory oversight role. They need to make sure that they are fulfilling that role so that people have confidence that the regulator is doing what the regulator should be doing.