Transport committee  Transport Canada, in the documents that were with the February 3 announcement, talks of the hardened cockpit door. They say the aircraft can no longer be taken over, that it can no longer be turned into a suicide weapon. Unfortunately, when you look at the certification standard

Transport committee  We raised this issue with Transport Canada at the end of November and said we understood there had been a 25% cut and asked what Transport Canada had done about it. We were advised by the officials that they were not consulted, that it was simply a directive from the central orga

Transport committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairperson. We have distributed three documents to you, entirely in English and in French. We appear today on behalf of the Canadian Union of Public Employees. The airline division of CUPE represents about 9,500 flight attendants at Air Canada, Air Transat, Cal

Transport committee  The whole question of the implementation of the enforcement policy is a matter that I think you should have Transport come in to answer. I feel I've already ventured onto thin ice by just bringing you their own documents. Now I have to explain them...? I think you should ask them

Transport committee  If you go to the front of tab 5, you'll see “Staff Instruction” and “Surveillance Procedures”, and then “Effective Date: 2010-02-08”. I believe that's February.

Transport committee  No. I believe that if you look at section 5.2, they are additional surveillance activities. As for what's listed on page 10, those activities are additional, dependent on resources. Everything that happens from section 7.0 on is a separate process.

Transport committee  No, they're very different. As Monsieur Grégoire explained, in an assessment they come in and do in-depth questioning to see if you have an SMS that works. That's what section 7.0 does. We're saying that's fine, you go ahead and do that, but you also need the section 5.0 activiti

Transport committee  I hope not, but I can't answer that question. Section 5.0 is just those two pages there.

Transport committee  I would hope not, because then that is watering down of section 5.0. All I can see is on page 10 of 66. It says, “When and as applicable”, but it doesn't go into the detail. So I think you've raised another criticism of this policy: it's too vague. It should actually specify what

Transport committee  Yes. Our overwhelming example is, “Thank you for your concern, and it is covered by your collective agreement”. There is no response, and people just notice that things aren't fixed and things aren't done. That's why people ask why they should play a one-way game. The sad part is

Transport committee  Off the top of my head, we made a major submission when the Aeronautics Act was being amended. That is in English only. I think it was a very detailed submission of about 40 pages. We'll dig it up. With respect, I will send it to you for you to translate into French and distribut

Transport committee  I'll give it to the chair.

Transport committee  Yes. I know that those comments are not on our website. We'll arrange with you and the clerk the best way to get it to you electronically. I'm just thinking through in my mind the two documents we need.

Transport committee  The SMS concept was first raised in 1999 at a CARAC technical meeting. There was a series of meetings. We proposed amendments to improve the process to have greater involvement from workers. All of those proposals were rejected. In fact, in the Canada Gazette, Part I, in 2005,

Transport committee  They are listening to their inspectors. I have spoken with both inspectors' unions and it is true that these meetings are happening. We met with Monsieur Grégoire in December and he promised that he would sit down with us because he feels we are spreading misinformation on SMS.