Mr. Chair and members, I would like to tell you a bit about myself.
I have worked for Air Transat for 16 years now after spending over 20 years in air operations with the Canadian Forces. For six years, I have been the manager responsible for implementing the air operations safety management system at Air Transat. I am essentially responsible for looking into all of the airline's sectors of activity, including flight safety, cabin operations, aircraft maintenance safety and all ground handling services. In short, everything related to air operations.
I would like to emphasize the comments that my colleagues have already made that the safety management system, or SMS, enables us to involve all of our company's employees in the common objective of providing safe operations. The SMS also provides us with an opportunity to create partnerships with all industry stakeholders. Whether they are air traffic controllers or airport managers, we work together to find the causes of incidents to establish the best corrective measures possible and prevent the incidents from happening again.
I personally think that the system is an opportunity to go much deeper into incident management and the safety of our operations.