This is not about beliefs. I am very uncomfortable hearing officials who are supposed to be introducing effective safety systems talk about beliefs. I am very disturbed when I hear people say that they believe something when the data we have demonstrates that the opposite is true.
I'd like to come back to the issue of the 100 or more files of serious safety violations that were closed with no further action to be taken. Previous to that, the national audit program had been killed.
Our concern, of course, is that we avoid the kind of carnage we're seeing on the railways. For members of this committee to say there's no evidence as long as there are no bodies is completely inappropriate. We've seen what happened in the railway industry, and we want to avoid the same thing happening with the airlines.
So we had 100 or more files of serious safety violations, and they were closed. The national audit program was axed, so there is no way of following up with those companies. My question is around the safety files. How many aircraft were impacted by this, and how has it been tracked by Transport Canada after the files were closed?