Transport committee  With respect to health, Health Canada is responsible for that question.

Transport committee  No. Health Canada is responsible for health. Their representatives sit on our national review committee. It isn't our responsibility to consider health directly. It's their responsibility, not that of Transport Canada.

Transport committee  Yes, but not for people's health.

Transport committee  The aircraft and the noise level are our responsibility, but health is Health Canada's responsibility.

Transport committee  Yes, there is a connection with the social or community aspect. However, responsibility for determining the impact on health falls to Health Canada.

Transport committee  I'd like to explain a little bit the general process. The airports have a responsibility to have a consultative approach to establishing the noise reduction procedures in an airport. They're obliged to do that. Once those procedures are established, through a consultative proces

Transport committee  The airport--

Transport committee  We'll just take the presentations one after the other.

Transport committee  I think I got the short straw.

Transport committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you to the members of this committee for inviting me to speak today on the issue of noise. Noise is not just a health concern; it's also a quality of life issue. If not properly handled with the right noise reduction strategies, this issue has the

Transport committee  They're done on a sampling basis, depending on what it is you want to look at. They've decided they need to do so many at a certain level, and then the way they choose people is on a random basis, quite often. It's not picking particular people. The idea is that it's not biased e

Transport committee  The thing we haven't mentioned here is that quality assurance is common in a lot of companies. We're trying to rely more on the companies having effective quality assurance systems to make all of their systems effective, but particularly with respect to safety. If they're doing t