Thank you for the question.
I'm not clear as to what I was misquoted on, but I did write the article that the member refers to. I am being quoted accurately; yes, I did write that.
In terms of SMS--that we did nothing--I would contend, Mr. Chair, that SMS was an integral part of the licensing process that we were actually delegated from the minister's authority of 2005 and by exemption prior to 2005. As a matter of fact, as a condition of issuing the certificate, we would not issue a certificate unless the condition of having an audit, along with...an independent audit, rather, and the existence of a safety management system was evident and audited against that SMS.
So to say that we did nothing and that Transport Canada was not around as a regulator is also not accurate, from the point of view that Transport Canada indeed was assessing our activities throughout this whole period, well before the TSB--