Transport committee  It seems to me that probably that's the route to go. I pointed out in my brief that, if you impose a $5 fee per ticket, you're going to raise a lot of money. If it were a $10 fee, you'd double it. I don't think any passenger in the world will object to paying $5 or $10 to be assu

Transport committee  What I am suggesting is a fee that would be dedicated directly to the oversight inspectorate directorate and no other purpose.

Transport committee  At the moment, the way the mandate operates is that they become, in effect, paper shufflers. They go out and they inspect the airline's paper documents. They don't inspect the operational end of it at all, and that's where the downfall is, because the airlines, in effect, are now

Transport committee  I think it should be a general inquiry, the way I conducted one in 1989, looking into all aspects of aviation safety in Canada across the board.

Transport committee  That's right.

Transport committee  It is a problem because they're reduced now to strictly simulator training. While that's fine, it's not the end result that we expected. I had a telephone call yesterday from an inspector who is very concerned about the number of inspectors that are now available. They seem to be

Transport committee  We're the only country in the world that has strayed from that, to the best of my knowledge. I've made inquiries of colleagues in several major countries. They are shocked by the fact that we have strayed from oversight.

Transport committee  The aircraft in which Mr. Prentice died was a private jet. I'm not sure of the make or model of the aircraft, however, it may have been the same as the one in which Mr. Lapierre was killed. I have no comment on that.

Transport committee  I think you need to increase the number of inspectors, for one thing, make sure they're fully trained, and that they return to traditional oversight inspections. SMS itself is not a safety program; it's a way of doing things. That's the problem with SMS. It's a good program, but

Transport committee  That's exactly the area I feel needs attention. The lack of adequate funding of Transport Canada's regulatory oversight branch in the 1980s was the root cause of the Dryden crash in 1989. It seems to me that it remains hanging like Damocles' sword over the Canadian air-travelling

Transport committee  Australia's the country I would suggest. I visited there at the invitation of the transport department some years ago. They have adopted SMS. Many countries are adopting SMS, but no country in the world except Canada has implemented SMS without regulatory oversight as a requirem

Transport committee  Those are statistics regarding actual accidents. But have you seen the statistics with respect to incidents, near misses, and so forth? There are a lot of these that aren't being reported.

Transport committee  One of the foremost aviation experts in the world recommended that there should be a safety inquiry about every 10 years. We are now at the 28-year mark since Dryden, and I think that an aviation inquiry is long overdue in this country. It's the only way to really get to the root

Transport committee  Excuse me, is there a volume control on this? I have difficulty hearing this.

Transport committee  Thank you for the privilege of being here today. Some of you may know of me as the commissioner who led the three-year inquiry into the disaster that occurred at Dryden, Ontario, when an aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff, killing 24 people. In my four-volume final report, I