Transport committee  That is more or less it. It is not a withdrawal, but a different approach. If an operator can convince us that its operations are very safe and comply with all Transport Canada acts and regulations, we will not need to be involved as often. We are currently training our inspecto

Transport committee  I'm sorry, I didn't bring the Transport Canada budget. I don't have the overall departmental budget. I have my own budget, but not the whole—

Transport committee  I don't have an SMS budget; I have a safety and security budget. If we start by talking about people, in Transport Canada we have about 5,000 people, roughly speaking, and 3,400 of them are working in safety and security. Of those 3,400, about half are in Ottawa and the other hal

Transport committee  The others are in programs operating the ports we still own, or in airports, and we have employees in corporate services, in finance, in HR, in communication, in informatics, and in policy, developing the economic policy of the department. There's a group in programs for the envi

Transport committee  For safety and security for 2006-07, our overall budget is $421 million for all of safety and security across the country. I can break it down by mode, if you're interested, but I have to know—

Transport committee  We do not need legislation. We are currently rewriting the entire regulatory framework, which will permit the enactment or coming into force of the Canada Shipping Act of 2001. We still do not have draft regulations to make SMS mandatory, but the SMS are part of our priorities f

Transport committee  We're still looking at it, and looking at this question throughout. We're having the same kinds of discussions with the smaller aircraft that are not subject yet to the regulations.

Transport committee  My remarks were undoubtedly unclear. Both the railway company and Transport Canada can do inspections. We have 105 inspectors throughout the country for the rail sector. Last summer, following some accidents, we notified CN that we would be much more active in its area of activi

Transport committee  Mr. Laframboise, this does not mean we are going to cease our activities. It is not about our withdrawal, as I've already explained. The SMS is an addition to regulations already in force. This is the case in aviation. We think that this will allow us to take a step forward and r

Transport committee  I see that I still have some work to do to convince you, but we have all the time we need. I do not know where you are getting your information that we reduced training budgets. To the best of my knowledge, civil aviation inspectors are on the contrary those who, throughout the d

Transport committee  We would have to do a subtraction here. It may be half. It's probably the smaller ships, because most of the big ships would have adhered. There are roughly 200 big ships, including the 66—or 60, now— SOLAS-class vessels. It would be the smaller ships that wouldn't have adhered,

Transport committee  The way I like to explain this is that in Transport Canada we have three main pillars: the economy, safety and security, and the environment. If you have those three pillars in balance, en équilibre, then you have sustainable transportation. If I want to push this for safety, for

Transport committee  A safety management system requires a profound change in culture that does not happen overnight. It takes a great deal of time before the companies and the operators, both in the rail, air and marine sectors, fully embrace the SMS philosophy. We estimate that this will take betwe

Transport committee  My colleagues in the economic portion of the department would be better placed to quantify this, but the impacts are quite devastating. If an airline crashes a big aircraft, or if a small airline crashes a small aircraft, the impacts are quite important to that company, especial

Transport committee  No, it's strictly to the CEO, the main shareholder, or the owner of the company. If he rents aircraft, he must maintain them to our standard. If he has a problem, he is accountable.