Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'd like to direct my question to Mr. Balnis. I appreciated his comments regarding the deputy minister and the leadership she is showing with regard to getting on the ground level and getting some input. I think that's going to be great. This committee is going to work with the department and listen, and then we're going to be making recommendations.
But ultimately you have to lead the people you represent, when we finally come up with something, and you have to show leadership too. There has to be a buy-in. If there isn't, it's not going to work, and it doesn't matter what we come up with. There's no way that we're going to mitigate all risk to aviation, but I think we really have done a great job in this country as far as mitigating the risk and the record that we have in aviation are concerned.
When they first came out with SMS, was there a buy-in? Did you support a buy-in to see if this thing would work? Could you give me an idea of just what you did do to see if you could make it work? I know there are problems, and we recognize that, but what did you do to try to support the government in what they were trying to do?