Mr. Sylvain Lachance at the Transport, Infrastructure and Communities Committee

On November 27th, 2014. See this statement in context.

November 27th, 2014 / 12:05 p.m.

Executive Director, Legislative, Regulatory and International Affairs, Department of Transport

There are two aspects to this. The first is that we want to bring the SMS down to 24 metres because in most cases it's a logical cut-off point in most conventions internationally. That's for the operation itself, for the vessel and so on.

The pilotage is another system that my colleague, Captain Obermeyer, has for its own operation, so it's complementary. With ours, the systems regulation we want to put in place has to do with the routine operation without a pilot or any time the vessel has an operation.

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