Good evening, Mr. Chair, Ms. and Mr. Vice-Chair and committee members.
I'll be speaking on behalf of both Dave and me. Let me begin by reintroducing myself.
My name is Nicholas Robinson. As the director general of civil aviation at Transport Canada, I'm responsible for leading a team tasked with maintaining aviation safety in Canada, and that includes aircraft certification. I'm joined today, as you've mentioned, by David Turnbull, my colleague, who is the director of national aircraft certification within Transport Canada.
We're pleased to be here with you once again to continue our discussion on aircraft certification. I believe the last time we met was in November 2020.
Mr. Chair, since our last appearance Transport Canada aviation safety experts have completed their independent review of the design changes to the Boeing 737 MAX aircraft and have validated the changes after a 22-month investigation involving in excess of 16,000 hours of review by Canadian experts.