Thank you.
At the outset I'll offer a comment. I don't think the deputy minister was suggesting that other people who are involved in safety management systems within the industry are not implicated in sustaining and supporting that. I think it's unfair to say that the deputy minister was only looking at one class of people in the business community as the only ones who should be looking at it and that it excludes other individuals within that industry. That's not the purpose of the safety management system.
As you know, Mr. Masse, the safety management system that we're pushing and that we want to be able to put in place is one whereby we add an additional layer of protection and security. We are not taking anything away from the existing rules and regulations. We are not downsizing and we are not deregulating; we are indeed maintaining one mission.
What is that mission? That mission is that Canada and Transport Canada and aviation still maintain their number one spot in the world as the safest organization and operation. That's the challenge we're facing.