Thank you, Mr. Chair.
What we said when we spoke with the witness was that safety is a shared responsibility. We have an important role to play in that as a government. We have to work with the provinces and territories and all the police forces. All parties involved have to work together for the good of the trucking industry. We can easily put an end to the Driver Inc. scheme and illegal practices to ensure the safety of everyone on our roads. We have to do so not only for truckers and victims, but also for our families, our friends and everyone who drives to work. That's sort of what this witness told us, and he isn't just anyone. When we welcome people with decades of experience, we should listen to them. We all have experience in our own fields, but when someone with a specific experience like that comes to talk to us, we have to take advantage of it.
We have heard other things. You know that training is important to me. I had the opportunity to meet Ken Adams, the president of the Truck Training School Association of Ontario. He's a former police officer who worked with Mr. Blair, a Liberal MP and former Toronto police chief. He's speaking out against forged documents. When a former police officer says that, it's important to take that into consideration and react. We don't want fake diplomas, fake certificates or fake licences in society. It's important for investigators to be able to find those forged documents.
We heard another witness say that changing just one letter in your first or last name was enough to reset the clock. Now, a former Toronto police officer has come forward to denounce forged documents. I thought I had heard it all, but Ken Adams told me some impressive things on the matter. That former traffic police officer owns a trucking school and represents an association of 40 independent regulated schools that has been around for over 30 years. Is it possible to find anyone better in the transportation field, other than a flight school owner who's also a former F‑18 pilot?
Mr. Adams testified about the declining quality of training and, above all, the consequences of poor training that can be seen on the ground in Canada. The problem isn't that complicated, actually. He said pretty much the same thing about training as the other witnesses did: The problem is the misclassification of drivers. It starts in the classroom, during exams. A transportation company that influences schools to speed up training isn't a good sign. It's important to clean up the licensing process, but it's also important to clean up the organizations that issue the licences. That accreditation, which contributes to the Driver Inc. phenomenon, can be extremely harmful to the trucking ecosystem. I think it's possible to solve the problem by raising awareness, improving coordination among the provinces and territories, and making recommendations that give Canada a role to play.