Mr. Chair, first of all, thank you for not limiting our access to the witnesses we have here from the department. Thank you so much.
I sort of agree with Mr. Bell. I think he also wants a more expansive definition. The problem is that we had a number of witnesses at this table who actually went out of their way to distinguish between safety and security. You may recall that. They classified those as two different concepts.
When we're talking about safety, we're talking about the structure of the airplane, how it's flown, etc. Security is the whole aspect of interlopers or people from outside deliberately focusing on bringing down a plane or hurting people. That distinction jumped right out at me simply because it was so stark.
This definition doesn't capture security. I had assumed, given the fact that we're going to be discussing security in the future and it's right there at the front of the public's agenda now, that we would want to have a definition that is as broad and expansive as possible.
Mr. Bell, you've suggested the term “safety management process”. Even putting the word “safety” in there does limit that definition. That's why I support my colleague Mr. Jean, simply because it is broad enough to capture any additional management processes that are required to ensure that the travelling public is not only safe but secure.