The only way you can make the sky safer is to reduce those accidents, at least the predictable ones, down to zero. Mechanical and personnel issues associated with safety in the business are the ones that at least this committee addressed, and you were here; we talked about those things very seriously. I think, quite frankly, telling me that we have a good record, and 95% are covered by our good record.... We're not sure what that means. That's still three million travellers, or three million trips--call it one and a half million travellers, assuming they want to go back from where they came from, who aren't covered by any of these measures. That sounds to me like a department and, if I dare say it, a minister who is not all that attentive to the safety issues facing the Canadian travelling public, at least as far as the aviation industry is concerned.
On November 30th, 2009. See this statement in context.