Transport committee  I just want to clarify something. I'll offer you something in return for your question, but Nav Canada is not responsible for designing noise abatement procedures. We look at the ones that are developed by airports, and sometimes those of airports along with airlines together,

Transport committee  Well, I think you are looking at two completely different problems. As I understand it, the issue at Saint Hubert is a high-density training operation, and perhaps the community has grown up around the airport. But I think that's just something that has to be worked out between

Transport committee  I believe we are a defendant in that lawsuit as well. So we're being sued along with them. I guess the issue is that Nav Canada, as the air navigation service provider and the air traffic control provider, has a very narrow focus on safety and efficiency. We're there to serve th

Transport committee  At Nav Canada, we really have no role to play in the policy issues. Up until now, even our role with the airports has been a technical one. So when the airports are looking at this in their own noise consultative committees, they will come up with suggested ways of mitigating the

Transport committee  In the past, we've made many changes in terminal manoeuvring areas in large cities. These generally take place a fair distance from the airport where the aircraft are at higher altitudes. In the past, we have made these changes and there have never been complaints. So, quite fran

Transport committee  Mr. Chairman, members of Parliament, thank you for inviting me to appear before the committee as part of your study on aircraft noise in the urban environment. Accompanying me is Trevor Johnson, assistant vice-president of service delivery; and Larry Lachance, assistant vice-pr

Transport committee  As a public airport, in the large sense that you understand it, it's probably unique. And I don't want to pick on the member for Fort McMurray, but in terms of the development of the oil sands, we have reached agreement with a number of the oil companies who have built jet strips

Transport committee  So is the flight service station; in that event, if the pilot chose to declare an emergency and say he had to land right away, the flight service specialist would have told the other aircraft there was an emergency coming in on the runway and to please get off. It's no different

Transport committee  Oh yes, and we're quite free to reach commercial arrangements like this. We do it all the time. We'd be happy to do it.

Transport committee  No. What I'm saying is that we have been meeting with the companies you mentioned, the couple of companies that, as far as I know, have not been part of the group asking for the tower. My understanding is that Bombardier, Bell Helicopter, and Pratt & Whitney are the only thre

Transport committee  Well, no. As people in our business do all over the world, there are very well-established standards for determining risk in our business that are very detailed and quite accurate, and we are applying those standards. That is the way we go about doing these things. We are trying

Transport committee  We have not been able to identify a safety problem. Now, you mentioned a specific incident involving a CF-18 that had a bird strike and had to return. There would not have been any difference with the control tower there on how that situation resolved itself. It was not a safet

Transport committee  Well, actually, you raise an issue. There is, as you know quite well, an issue in the Greater Vancouver area, and particularly in Surrey and North Delta, with some changes we made in recent years to the approach and departure paths for Vancouver International Airport. Those chang

Transport committee  Well, Mr. Dhaliwal, I will have our people who are handling this contact you to hear your views on it and to get some feedback from you, number one, but also to show you the consultations we have done, the reports we've done ourselves and dealt with, the meetings we've gone to, a

Transport committee  We're tracking it constantly.