Transport committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. First, please let me say that our thoughts today are with the people of Ukraine. Nav Canada is the not-for-profit corporation that owns and operates the world's first privatized air navigation system, ensuring the safest, most efficient movement

Transport committee  Thank you for your question, Mr. Barsalou‑Duval. First, I want to make clear that there wasn't any confusion. Before the flight, we spoke with Transport Canada and we asked the FAA to reroute the flight to keep it out of Canada's airspace. That's when the FAA controller indicat

Transport committee  Yes and no. The first NOTAM made no mention of humanitarian flights. Normally, those flights are allowed entry, in compliance with ICAO procedures. As you pointed out, the NOTAM has since been clarified, and NAV CANADA was given authority to deny clearance to humanitarian, medev

Transport committee  Not on NAV CANADA's end. I would have to defer to the Transport Canada officials on that.

Transport committee  The first thing is that I'm not necessarily privy to the conversation that there was between those pilots. I'm certainly not in a position to comment on what the pilots were thinking at the time and the reasons they did certain things. What I can share with you is that we did ex

Transport committee  I would have to direct that information to Transport Canada. However, what I can share with you is that it is our belief that the investigation into Nav Canada showed that the actions were complete. It was found that we did everything in compliance with published regulations, pro

Transport committee  There has in the sense that flight plans were deposited. To give you an idea of how many, from the publishing of the NOTAM to around March 7, there were 55 flights that were diverted around Canadian airspace at the request of Nav Canada from the adjacent ANSPs.

Transport committee  If you take it from the numbers that I gave you from February 28 to March 7, 55 would be the number. You can divide that by the number of days.

Transport committee  We have, as usual, very good communication with Transport Canada, and Transport Canada is the one that provides us with a lot of the information. There are some easy ones, as you could see with Aeroflot, and the Government of Canada has given us a list of aircraft that are regist

Transport committee  Can you confirm who the question is for? I would imagine that it's for me.

Transport committee  The NOTAM is intended, as I said in my opening statement, for thousands of pilots, or whoever's in the air. They obey the NOTAMs in order to keep the airspace safe and secure. In a sense, when the NOTAM is published, it is active immediately and all pilots are required to obey it

Transport committee  I don't think it's my place to comment on whether it's confusing or not to the public at large. It was not confusing to Nav Canada what our authority was at the time and what needed to be done to operationalize the procedures.

Transport committee  Again, unfortunately, I have to repeat what I said. It is not my place to comment on what's usual or not usual. What I can tell you is that as soon as we got the NOTAM, we knew what we needed to do, and we worked with the government to get the proper authority to operationalize t

Transport committee  I think a Government of Canada official could answer your second question better than I could. The detection system used by the Department of National Defence may or may not be NAV CANADA's. To answer your first question, I would say that there are different types of flights. N

Transport committee  That would be a VFR flight, meaning one that is conducted in accordance with visual flight rules. The pilot would request IFR clearance. We would identify the flight, ask the pilot what they want to do and give them clearance based on our capacity at that specific time, depending