Thank you for your question. Once again, I think it's an opportunity to be able to reassure everybody around this table that our objective is not to walk away from our responsibility. Our objective is not to deregulate.
Once again, the Government of Canada, through its legislation, and Transport Canada regulate this sector. This is an umbrella approach. It is another tier, another layer of security and safety that is being put forward.
When I was first introduced to this system, I asked exactly the same questions as a lot of the colleagues here around the table, and I wanted to know whether or not this was diminishing Canada's ability and Transport Canada's ability to perfectly regulate the industry and regulate it in terms of safety. We—or at the very least, I—came to a conclusion. When we have somebody who is working on a manufacturer's level and who is looking at the way they're going forward in terms of assembling a plane, when we have somebody who is with a recognized and well-known airline association, who says they are extremely conscious of the role they play with their pilots and with the industry, and when they are able to come forward and issue certificates, people take this extremely seriously. I think that at the end of the day, we have to be able to have confidence in the men and women who do this as a job. This is their daily bread, and they're extremely not only conscious but sensible, sensitized to these important issues. So we're not trying to walk away from our responsibilities.
I mentioned before in French that Transport Canada is a world leader in aviation safety. We've always been a world leader. We do not want to walk away from that. We still want to maintain our number one position. If we need to bring forward amendments that are going to reassure the members of this committee, we will do so, but our intention is to continue with the progress that we've established over the last number of years. It's not a question of being partisan or non-partisan. We're looking at the way Canada has made progressive and important moves in the past, and we want to be able to support and sustain that.
So any idea of walking away from that responsibility would be contrary to what the principles are and what the objective of this piece of legislation is.