Transport committee  This Transport Canada publication says aerial work, air taxi operations, and commuter operations, September 2008, planned in force.

Transport committee  I'm aware of it, but I won't speak for anybody other than flight attendants. At Air Canada, Air Transat, and now at Calm Air, we found a new 90-page manual, apparently approved by Transport Canada, because there's a signing page for the minister—we've asked him if it's been appro

Transport committee  It's not in the book. This is a Calm Air document.

Transport committee  It would be great if you would. I'll give you the reference for that, but it's a Calm Air document.

Transport committee  In June 2002, Air Canada implemented a new non-punitive safety reporting policy. We tried to negotiate it. They did negotiate one with the pilots, but for the people in the back, they didn't. It's just been implemented over us. We don't know how it works. For the last year and a

Transport committee  At the Ottawa headquarters level, because we went to Transport Canada, after our meeting with Mr. Cannon—

Transport committee  Not in the last 18 months. There have been meetings chaired by Transport Canada, to bang our heads together to make it work, but the inspectors weren't there because they were having profound disagreements over how it would be implemented. But that's different from what you're a

Transport committee  CAR 705. I'm just pulling out their Transport Canada brochure, but the carriers that I would know about would be Air Canada, Air Transat, and Calm Air. They're in phase 2.

Transport committee  It's not a question of Transport Canada approaching you. When they issued their exemption, they created a three-year timetable: you've got to do this by this, or we're going to pull your operating certificate. So the operator got their brain focused and met the first milestone,

Transport committee  Curiously—and it's one of our recommendations, I believe number 11—Transport Canada Aviation did not require the effective involvement of workers in the development and implementation of SMS. We were told that it was improper, illegal. However, if you look at the rail safety SM

Transport committee  Very briefly—and I think this will answer Mr. Storseth's question about pilots and flight attendants, because we're in the same aircraft—in June 2002 there was a tail strike of an airline in Frankfurt. A flight attendant was improperly in the cockpit. She was traumatized by the i

Transport committee  In the documents you will see, though we did not put this forward, that the regulations were passed June 15, 2005, without waiting for Bill C-6, under an existing authority. The very same day, the regulations were exempted. The document that is in tab 5, if I'm not mistaken, wa

Transport committee  At that point in time, Transport Canada and Air Canada had a fight, and the inspectors weren't there. For about a year the inspectorate was not in attendance at those meetings. At those meetings we raised such issues as how the Canada Labour Code might apply to SMS. Well, Air Can

Transport committee  CUPE represents 550,000 public and private sector employees across Canada. We are predominantly a public sector union--municipalities, school boards, hospitals. In 1986 the Canadian—

Transport committee  Yes. In 1986, the flight attendants joined CUPE as part of our division. They've been with us for 21 years, and I've been working with them for 21 years. In the airlines, we represent only small numbers of employees at smaller airports in the aviation industry. For example, the