Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I thank the committee for welcoming us here today. It's a great honour and privilege to be able to share our experiences on the implementation of safety management systems here in Canada.
I'll give you a bit of background on myself. I've been 13 years with WestJet and a little over 20 years in the industry, primarily in flight operational roles, prior to taking on this role in the safety, security, and quality side for the past three years.
From a WestJet perspective and a greater NACC perspective—I won't touch on some of the technical details that David and Sam have quite eloquently put—I'll talk a little bit about the culture side.
Obviously, coming from a culturally enabled organization such as WestJet, the big differentiator that we have found with safety management systems is how it takes that cultural envelope and leverages that across the system. We may have safety in our names or titles here, representing the four airlines, but the reality is that for the 43,000 front-line employees, they are the front face of safety every day in our airlines. The safety management system is to enable their voice and their opportunity to be a very enabled and active piece of safety within the airline system operating across Canada every day.
With that, I will close. We look forward to the discussion. Thank you for the opportunity.