It's not the legislation itself that says that, because it doesn't, and we looked at section 5.2 before, in the first hour. It's the regulation that would look at this. But our objective in Transport Canada is to have only one kind of security clearance for workers. Whether it be a port worker, a mariner, an airport worker, a trucker, or a train driver, we would use the same clearance.
Basically the background check we do is that once the individual has submitted a form, a request to obtain a clearance, we analyze it, we submit it to the RCMP and to CSIS, and both the RCMP and CSIS do their checks. CSIS will check to see if the person represents a threat to national security, and the RCMP will look to see if the person has a criminal record or if the person is a member of organized crime. And based on that information we determine whether or not the person should be granted a clearance, with only one question in mind: Does that person represent a threat to transportation security--period.
We have not yet introduced the notion of different levels. So for now, everybody we have in the system only has one level, which is different from the way it is for the employees. For instance, for the employees, we have enhanced reliability, secret, and top-secret levels.
The transportation security clearance is quasi-equivalent to the secret level that we have in the public service, but it's the same for everybody.