Transport committee  Mr. Chair, we make the comment also here that this proposed amendment is not consistent with the CTAISB Act legislation. They're under no obligation to publish their interim reports like this.

Transport committee  There's the added dimension, Jim, that in the context of the military, there are flight investigation reports that have confidential and classified material in them that the minister and Jim's staff here have to analyze and review before the process occurs and the report is put u

Transport committee  Exactly. That power currently exists and is no longer required once we have our amendments in the Aeronautics Act.

Transport committee  Mr. Chair, my apologies, but we don't have a copy of the amendment before us. Is there a chance that we could see it?

Transport committee  We'll respond to that. I'm Alex Weatherston, from the Department of Justice, and I've been supporting the air force with the legal side of this bill. That's a good question. Currently, there is the power to convene a board of inquiry under this act. It goes into the Inquiries

Transport committee  I think, sir, we're trying to avoid—as Mr. Armour mentioned—having to go to court to settle these matters because under the current law, the board of inquiry has an independent status. They could demand the on-board recording from the colonel here. They have an infinite mandate a

Transport committee  I think it is better. First of all, the man beside me here is going to have the first decision. If the board of inquiry wants that particular on-board recording, they've got to come to the AIA, the colonel here, to make that initial decision. We have to think that it's going to b

Transport committee  There is a clause in the bill that provides certain provisions in part II to just the military investigations. That is clause 24.7.

Transport committee  No. All these clauses are new clauses for us. Up until now we've relied on certain of the privileged sections in the CTAISB Act, but all the other ones are building this whole system now for accessing the civilian information.

Transport committee  If I could add one thing Mr. McGuinty, on the question of the minister's power to decide on the balancing test, section 11 of our amendments also allows the minister to delegate any matter under part II to any officer or member of the department. So one could expect perhaps, that