Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I appreciate the more robust discussion of what's really driving this. We've heard testimony from the railroad industry that is having similar difficulties. The Transportation Safety Board has recommended for the past eight to nine years that there be voice and video recorders on board. The railroad said, “We'll put them in tomorrow as long as you let us use them for disciplinary purposes”.
You don't do that in the airline industry, clearly, and you never have, yet they're there and they're useful, and they're made use of for incidents circumstances. So we're still fighting that old battle.
But your battle, Bill C-6 and Bill C-7 would have corrected, as I understand it. That was first introduced eight years ago. So, what's the hold-up? Has anybody talked to you folks about that? No? It's just sitting there somewhere in a thought of this government.
In terms of the SMS itself, the other thing we have heard in the conduct of our discussions with the railroad industry, in particular, is that SMSs are confidential, proprietary, and competitive pieces of information.
Is there any reason an SMS system should not be disclosed publicly, so we can know exactly what's in it and maybe help work on it?