I want to go back to my initial question. I have nothing against the safety management system, but the problem, to my mind, is that you are creating an organized system that will apply to small companies. I think that it can work for large corporations, and I am convinced that you have the inspectors you need to show up any time at Air Transat or Air Canada and ensure that everything is in order.
The problem with this bill is that you are organizing smaller companies into safety management systems. If they are unable to do so themselves, you create designated organizations that will organize the sector. So you are creating an organized system.
To my mind, the dubious aspect concerns the monitoring of this system, which must always be done by Transport Canada. You say that you will be doing more inspections than in the past. We will see what other witnesses have to say about that. For the time being, that is what you are saying, and I am not sure that it is the case. I know that you have reduced your inspectors' training budgets. That is the problem.
I do not have a problem with organizing the system, with delegating to organizations that will take responsibility for a sector, but you must have the staff necessary to inspect any company, from the smallest to the largest, at any time. Having the industry organize itself and set up safety management systems is one thing, but if there isn't anyone I trust to ensure that they are meeting the safety standards as the population expects them to do, that is a problem.
You are organizing a system, but I am not sure that you have the staff you need to ensure that the system is better than the current one. As we speak, you have inspectors who may go, at any time, to any company to ensure it is meeting safety standards.
That is what I was saying at the outset. Because of the attacks in 2001, I would have preferred seeing a greater number of inspectors and not an organized system; let's allow, for example, Air Canada and Air Transat, through regulations, to have a safety management system, but not the smaller companies. Keep in mind that it was a smaller company that trained the pilots who crashed their aircraft into the twin towers in New York.
I have trouble accepting the idea of this system and leaving the issue of safety entirely in the hands of industry.