Transport committee  No, I don't. It has been described as another layer of safety, but what's not being said is that they're removing one layer of safety and substituting this one, in my view.

Transport committee  It seems that the determination on whether a particular carrier is in a low-risk or high-risk situation is best made by a qualified, experienced aviation inspector who will go to the site and examine it and then report back, rather than relying on the carrier, under SMS, to repor

Transport committee  It is in a way, because if it's functioning properly, you have people within the organization who theoretically are prepared to pass this information on without risk of reprisal, etc. I don't see how you're going to do that successfully in the absence of whistle-blower legislatio

Transport committee  My understanding is that the regulations will continue to exist. However, the question is who is going to enforce them.

Transport committee  Oh, it's a wonderful system if you get it working properly, but with oversight.

Transport committee  Absolutely.

Transport committee  No, no. I thought you meant it wouldn't have taken place. In my opinion, if you had that in place it would not have occurred.

Transport committee  It's very unlikely that it would have.

Transport committee  Well, if they had done an audit they could have found a myriad of failures within the Air Ontario organization--their operations, their maintenance, pilot training, you name it. It was an accident waiting to happen.

Transport committee  They'll be affected because you're not going to have the traditional audit program. The way I see it, you're not going to have in-flight monitoring.

Transport committee  Even your pilot proficiency checks have been downloaded onto the carriers themselves.

Transport committee  No, I certainly don't, because at the time of the Dryden inquiry, the inspectors made a major contribution to the inquiry in identifying the problems that existed within the aviation system. These people are on the job. They're on the front lines. They know what's going on. Who

Transport committee  Take the marine SMS or IMS that they have. The audit that was done on the BC Ferries, for example, indicated that the effect of confidential or voluntary reporting was negative. People were not prepared to report voluntarily because they were afraid for their jobs and afraid of r

Transport committee  No. There are very few countries that do it, but it's a good idea. We did have a safety inquiry in 1982, the Dubbin Commission of Inquiry into Aviation, which was not as extensive as my Dryden inquiry turned out to be. It came up with a number of good recommendations, some of whi

Transport committee  One of the big problems we discovered with the regulator was that they were operating under 40-year-old ANOs and air regulations. They still had provisions in there for navigators on board airliners. There hadn't been a navigator in existence for at least thirty years. They were