Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to our witnesses.
If you don't mind, I'd like to start with Mr. Barone, because his presentation, while eloquent, leads to a lot of questions in my own mind.
Obviously we're a political party on this side, so we question things through a particular ideological position. We welcome the fact that the minister reinstituted the regulator's authority by taking back that which it had relegated to your organization.
The Transportation Safety Board, in examining one of their last incidents, found that commercial operators are required to implement SMS in stages on a fixed timeline, but that your membership in fact was free to implement SMS on its own terms and with no fixed timelines.
Part of your presentation gave me a sense that you bemoan the fact that the minister took back what he had given you; the other half says, oh, it's a great idea to have a robust system that combines SMS and a very active, aggressive presence by the regulator. I agree with the latter part, because it appears that you didn't do anything over the course of the last period when you had been given a mandate to implement what you call a forward-thinking and forward-operating system based on performance. Am I right?