However, your president, Mr. Barone—pardon me, Mr. LaFlamme—tells us he does not agree with the Transportation Safety Board's finding. You're like a dog chasing its tail: you'll never get there. So I clearly understand why the minister was right to make the decision he made.
My next question is for Mr. Mignault. In your report today, you tell us there has to be a take-over, that a system clearly has to be introduced, that no one in the airline industry claims that the oversight function is redundant. However, pilot associations have appeared before the committee and told us they ultimately didn't need inspection. At the time, when we discussed that, they said they were capable of evaluating their qualifications and that they did not need oversight. In short, this is changing, and I'm pleased about that.
The only reservation, Mr. Mignault, concerns the TCAs, which have 15,000 members who work in your industry. When they appeared before our committee—I hope you examined their testimony; if not, I encourage you to read it—they told us that the biggest problem right now is whistle-blowing. The safety management system is based employees being able to report problems to management. However, what they are seeing is that employees who decide to disclose face reprisals, and there is no follow-up to disclosures.
From what I understood, you are the senior officer responsible for safety at Air Transat. Can you give me a guarantee that there are no reprisals against employees at Air Transat? I would say that employees will listen to you, if ever there are any. We are being asked for a new act, similar to the U.S. act: people want employees to have better protection when they make disclosures.
Can you give me a guarantee that, at Air Transat—which is a business I very much appreciate personally—there are no reprisals against employees who make disclosures?
