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Transport committee Yes, this is what we foresee. It is certainly what we hope, because this is what will help in being more proactive about improving safety.
March 30th, 2010Committee meeting
Marc Grégoire
Transport committee We can suspend their certificate, for one thing. If a company does not comply with SMS, we have a number of enforcement tools. The harsher one is to suspend their certificate.
March 30th, 2010Committee meeting
Marc Grégoire
Transport committee The short answer is that the only reason we're implementing SMS is to save lives and improve safety.
March 30th, 2010Committee meeting
Marc Grégoire
Transport committee I'll just add a few points. I was thinking of hiring you when I heard your question. First of all, on technology, there are two points. We have depended largely, over the last 50 years, on technological improvements in aviation to improve our safety record. For instance, when
March 30th, 2010Committee meeting
Marc Grégoire
Transport committee No one has ever brought any problems with pilot logbooks to my attention.
March 30th, 2010Committee meeting
Marc Grégoire
Transport committee I agree with you completely. I don't think it is necessary to keep on eternally wondering what happened in 2001. As you said, the department believed it wasn't a priority. In spite of everything, the department did the work and the research and recommended that the industry use t
March 30th, 2010Committee meeting
Marc Grégoire
Transport committee No, you can ask questions, Mr. Laframboise, but I can't give you any better answers.
March 30th, 2010Committee meeting
Marc Grégoire
Transport committee Yes, it is.
March 30th, 2010Committee meeting
Marc Grégoire
Transport committee If you do so, you're supposed to report to both companies the number of hours you have flown, so that both will make sure you don't exceed the maximum allowable hours you can fly on a daily, monthly, 90-day, and yearly basis, as per the regulations.
March 30th, 2010Committee meeting
Marc Grégoire
Transport committee Yes, of course it is happening, but it should not happen. And I think I testified here a few years ago on that situation, more specifically with rail companies, where we had done an SMS assessment and found out that what we're supposed to have in a company, which is a non-punitiv
March 30th, 2010Committee meeting
Marc Grégoire
Transport committee The company must meet all Canadian standards, and if they outsource, they must still meet all TC safety standards. So for us, there is no difference, as long as the service provider meets the standards. This is why it's also so important to work within the framework of ICAO and t
March 30th, 2010Committee meeting
Marc Grégoire
Transport committee I am not prepared to say that it never happens, but obviously, when such cases are discovered during logbook inspections, we take the appropriate steps to apply the law. As for knowing whether the problem has been the same in recent years as it was during the previous 20 or 30 ye
March 30th, 2010Committee meeting
Marc Grégoire
Transport committee Thank you, Yaprak. First of all, if I go back to both of your questions, we have communicated extensively over the last ten years both with industry and our inspectors. But what we haven't done enough is perhaps distinguish the role of the inspector, or the oversight role, versu
March 30th, 2010Committee meeting
Marc Grégoire
Transport committee The bottom line is yes. However, we're not necessarily using the same vocabulary that you just mentioned. But we will do all of those activities, and that's what I tried to explain in the introduction, that certainly some of you and some of our inspectors thought that we were out
March 30th, 2010Committee meeting
Marc Grégoire
Transport committee That's certainly the message we passed to all industry members we met. But certainly this misconception was not only among our inspectors but also among some portion of the industry. It is clear that they will see us, but again on a risk basis. A company that is operating very s
March 30th, 2010Committee meeting
Marc Grégoire