Thank you for agreeing to share that.
I appreciate both of your testimonies. In a very real sense it wraps up what we've been hearing, which is folks saying that SMS would work in theory. But looking at the practical sides of the lack of enforcement, the lack of support, and the cutbacks we're seeing essentially raises real issues about the final result if Transport Canada continues cutting back on regulation and ending audits at the same time as they're promoting SMS.
I want to give you a quote from Justice Moshansky. You've both referred to him. When he appeared before us on February 28, he said:
Today, 18 years after Dryden, history is repeating itself, only worse. Cost-cutting is again in vogue at Transport Canada and has been for some time. Transport Canada management have publicly admitted this. Regulatory oversight is not being merely reduced. Except for limited focused audits, it is being systematically dismantled...
—regulatory oversight is being systematically dismantled—
...under Bill C-6. All of this is occurring in the face of a predicted doubling of the size of the aviation industry by 2015, as per Transport Canada's own estimates.
I would like to ask both of you how you react to Justice Moshansky's comments about Transport Canada's cutbacks on regulatory oversight.