Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to our experts for being here today.
Mr. Chomniak, I want to start with a question or two for you. In earlier responses you've had this concern that Transport Canada is carrying out inspections of ships but third party classification organizations are doing the audits of the safety management systems. You think perhaps there's a disconnect there and that maybe we can explore the possibility of bringing those two things together.
I just want to ask if you could help me understand the difference between the two, between the Transport Canada inspection and the SMS audit. Draw us a kind of picture of the checklist for each, if you will. How are they different? How are they the same?