It is our understanding that Transport Canada will continue to have oversight on safety. There will be regular audits on company SMS systems that are in place. If they detect any irregularities, then it'll go back to the more traditional audit.
Transport Canada will still play a huge and very important role. I think they've done a fantastic job in the past in identifying areas where improvements could be made.
I think with today's technology, aircraft training systems have improved to a great degree. This will only enhance that, by being able to identify problems out on the line as pilots, without worrying about retribution. If we say something about what was done that maybe wasn't done the correct way, then this will improve safety. This is how.
I will use an example. One of the companies we represent in Canada has a flight that departs Toronto fairly late at night and flies to St. John's, Newfoundland. It sits for two hours and then returns. The pilots were continually saying how tired they were on the return trip. The company's response originally was that it's within the Transport Canada regulations, it's within the 14-hour duty time, and they were absolutely right. However, under the SMS system in that company, they sat down with the company officials and identified that the two-hour wait at 4:30 in the morning probably wasn't the best thing. Now they've rearranged their flight schedule so they don't have that sit.
That's an area where SMS works perfectly well. I know Transport Canada would certainly embrace that in that situation.