Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and members of the committee. Thank you for the opportunity to meet with you today. As you mentioned, I'm accompanied by Marc Grégoire and Merlin Preuss. I should perhaps say that both are engineers and both also hold a pilot's licence. At the outset, I wou

Public Accounts committee  There has definitely been an increase in air traffic. I do not know whether we have the exact figure.

Public Accounts committee  The air traffic has probably increased by 3 to 5%. I cannot...

Public Accounts committee  There will be more risk management. As we say in our statement, we do not need an inspector to check the tire pressure and the landing gear for each aircraft. However, we want our inspectors to inspect the company's books and make sure that systems are in place so that when some

Public Accounts committee  Per year. There is an increase in air traffic each year.

Public Accounts committee  Possibly.

Public Accounts committee  I am glad you ask your question in this way. That is precisely why we need to establish different management systems. When I spoke about the two reasons mentioned by the ICAO, I said that the main one was the exponential increase in air traffic. The situation is such that we coul

Public Accounts committee  I will let Mr. Grégoire and Mr. Preuss give you the details on that. We have definitely made some progress in this respect since the audit was completed. Like all departments, we did not want to have a human resources plan in isolation. It must be connected to the business plan,

Public Accounts committee  I will refer you to the experts. They can answer that question.

Public Accounts committee  I'm glad that you asked that question. I visited the Atlantic region, yesterday...

Public Accounts committee  Are you talking about rules on conflict of interest? Would those rules apply?

Public Accounts committee  Our director of human resources tells me that in the last two weeks, one of our boat inspectors was approached by the owner while he was carrying out his inspection. He was offered a job on the spot, at twice his current rate of pay. In my introductory statement, I referred to t

Public Accounts committee  I will answer that. Recently, Treasury Board has encouraged us to completely rethink our Program Activity Architecture. Our department, which is rather large, had 184 programs. We did a major housecleaning and managed to reduced that number to 65. Now in terms of managing the pr

Public Accounts committee  They're well on their way. Mr. Preuss is too humble to say this, but we are truly world leaders. We're not only recognized by the ICAO; we're recognized by many countries that actually come here by the busload to get presentations on how we do things. We have an incredible part

Public Accounts committee  I will let Merlin answer that, but I think there are probably more commercial impacts of this than we can imagine. The fact that we're showing leadership as a regulator probably makes our manufacture of simulators much more attractive to those countries and makes our airlines mor