Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Captain, thank you very much for coming before the committee again. I recall the last time you came and your concerns at the time; this time, I think you're even a little more direct. It's troubling, actually, not because you're direct, but because of what you have to say.
I'm sure you chose your words very carefully, but in your presentation you said that “the absence of traditional safety oversight represents a serious risk to the travelling public”. In another committee hearing having to do with vehicles, as opposed to air equipment, I made the very serious statement that, in the face of these kinds of statements and backed up by evidence, the minister's or the regulator's indifference to these facts verges on negligence bordering on criminal negligence.
If we're talking about the safety of travellers, once a plane is up in the air and there's a problem, that problem usually translates into a fatality. Now, because you said this very deliberately, I'm just wondering whether it was your intention to shock everybody into that reality.