Thank you, Mr. Chair.
My question is for Mr. Primeau.
Given the issues surrounding the 737 MAX 8 and the American certification process, it became apparent that the shortcomings of the process affected not only Americans, but people here as well.
Earlier this year, when he appeared before our committee, Mr. Turnbull, a senior official who works on aircraft certification, said that no issues were identified. That doesn't seem right to me. Later, we saw that some Transport Canada pilots reportedly sent notes in 2016 saying that they did in fact identify issues.
Yet there was no willingness, at least on the part of the government, to come clean. It seems that people wanted to say that the government had done nothing wrong and that everything was perfect, when this clearly wasn't the case.
For me, the 737 MAX 8 accident reveals one thing. This actually goes beyond the accident, but it reveals one thing. Our regulators potentially endangered the lives of pilots and passengers through complacency in terms of oversight. Do you agree with this? What do you have to say about this?