Transport committee  Thank you.

Transport committee  When I was asked to join the work group, there was me and another pilot, Jim King, and the name of the leader of our group was Susan. She was a librarian, and she was in charge of it. We met with the Americans in Mexico twice, and we met with them here, in a room. We went over

Transport committee  Well, I don't think you can...if this was an automobile, this pilot wouldn't have a driver's licence. He'd either be insured out of the business--his insurance rates would go up so much--or we'd finally decide some guy shouldn't have a driver's licence.

Transport committee  I'll pass that over to Paul.

Transport committee  Another Dryden--a crash. That's how you get your money. What happens when they get the Moshansky money is they use it to almost circumvent. They satisfy their recommendations, but they don't necessarily follow the spirit. I'll give you a quote from my manager, who I brought this

Transport committee  It would be a free-for-all.

Transport committee  I don't know about the lack of regulatory oversight before, but after, there was no enforcement investigation. The investigation was a paper exercise. Somebody who had been on stress leave before the crash was asked to sign off on it. That's how some things get done, or maybe hav

Transport committee  The Auditor General has this document. The Public Service Integrity Office has it. Everyone has it except Virgil Moshansky, I think. But I'll give this up. When I first created this document, I didn't know the dead guy's name. I was so ostracized that I was afraid to ask. I did

Transport committee  When I arrived at Transport, I started to hear--and if I heard this once, I heard it a hundred times--that we needed another Dryden. That was how we were to get money. That was how we had Dubin—

Transport committee  I look at it like trying to run a neighbourhood watch without a cop car. You can't do it. You have to have oversight. And it can't be, as I think I heard the other day, where Mr. Reinhardt was going to work with one airline to look at another. I think that's how I understood the

Transport committee  When I worked in the Arctic there was always the fear of an inspector hiding behind every 45-gallon drum. Then when I joined Transport, I realized they weren't. They don't do that. They don't want to regulate. Air Transat is a perfect example of how an SMS system would have wor

Transport committee  My position is that you can't get rid of the audit procedure. You have to have audits. Just as the Auditor General is going to audit Transport Canada, you have to have those audits. They need to be done. They've been watered down. The whole program was watered down. Dryden was th

Transport committee  No. I am confused. My issue is the lack of regulatory supervision, and it's always there. We had an airline come up from California and do 50 internal flights flying hockey teams around, and there was no enforcement action on that. We hear those things every day, where manageme

Transport committee  I'd like to thank the committee for this opportunity to finally speak on a subject that is well known to me. Let me first give you my background in aviation. My career spanned 30 years in aircraft operation. Most of my 9,000 hours were on Twin Otter aircraft on wheels, floats, a