What is being proposed here is enforceable. There are a number of provisions in Bill C-6 that would make the situation quite different from what it is in rail.
The Railway Safety Act does not provide for very stringent enforcement action. For instance, there are no monetary penalties, and there's no way to lift an operating certificate. The Railway Safety Act is under review now, and we'll have the chance to bring forward all the amendments we wish.
To come back to aviation, if a similar situation occurred in aviation, our inspectors, who would be in the numbers we discussed, would go in. But rather than do the inspection in the way they are doing it today or in the way they used to do it, they would specifically look at a detailed analysis of the safety management system. On the basis of the report, it would indicate that the SMS is not well implemented, and a number of enforcement actions could be taken, or we could decide to go in to do inspections and audits in the usual manner.
All the options are open, and we could lift a certificate or set a huge fine. You will have noticed that in Bill C-6 we are proposing to significantly increase the fines we would be able to set for airlines. All of those avenues and enforcement tools could be used.
It is fundamental in the SMS culture we want to implement that employees must report. It's a reporting culture. We really want to encourage everybody to report problems before they arise and before they become more serious problems. We think it's the best way to improve safety.
But if an employee is fired the first time he makes such a report, the system obviously doesn't work and must be fixed. It wouldn't meet the intent of the actual regulation, but we have all the provisions to address the problem.