Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Mr. Chairman, committee members, my name is Gilles Dufault and I have been the Acting Chairman of the Canadian Transportation Agency since July 1st of this year. It is my pleasure to be with you here this afternoon to answer any questions that committee members might have with respect to Bill C-11. I am accompanied today by Mr. Seymour Isenberg and Ms. Joan MacDonald, respectively Director General of Rail and Marine Transportation and Director General of Air and Accessible Transportation.
First of all, I would like to take a few minutes to describe our organization and its responsibilities. Before I begin, it is worthwhile to point out that the current Canadian Transportation Agency is actually Canada's oldest administrative tribunal, one whose mandate and fields of jurisdiction have evolved along with the changes that have taken place in the country's transportation system.