Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, everyone, for being here this morning.
Aviation safety is close to my heart. I lost a brother in an aviation accident, through a combination of materiel fatigue and pilot error, so I take this very seriously and I thank you for being here.
In preparation for this discussion today, I did a little bit of investigation. When I did a Google search and asked the computer what is being done in Canada on aviation safety, an enormous amount of material came up.So obviously we have devoted considerable attention to this, and we've made it a top of mind priority, because for our government, safety for Canadians is a priority.
For instance, I was looking at Transport Canada's website They have a whole sort of test, if you will, called “Score Your Safety Culture”, that you can go through to score your own safety culture. Then I looked at the recommendations from the Transportation Safety Board and saw that an enormous number of recommendations were put forward.
Can you tell me, first of all, how you go about doing your own audit? What components do you use? This applies to both of you. Can you talk about that?
Can you two talk about Canada and our safety record in light of international standards? I looked at international aviation safety assessment and I think we score pretty well. Can you talk about that? I'll put that to both of you.