Natural Resources committee  Okay.

Natural Resources committee  I think it's a good thing because when Parliament speaks, it speaks and that's that: you have to do it. Where did the offshore workers come from? They come from the public. It's not just the individual, but the individual's spouse, children, and parents. It's a whole lot of peo

Natural Resources committee  Okay. I've talked to a lot of workers in the course of the inquiry and since then. They come up to me in the supermarket or wherever I am and they talk about it. The literature out of the North Sea says this: that the transportation by helicopter is the most dangerous part of a

Natural Resources committee  Mr. Barnes, you were at the safety forum, weren't you?

Natural Resources committee  You did hear that right. That's why I put it there as a fallback position, because I realized that 29(a) might not fly, at this time at any rate, and perhaps never. Who knows?

Natural Resources committee  The problem was recognized first, or at least formally recognized, by Lord Cullen, arising out of Piper Alpha. The people who make the rules and give the permission to explore and to develop may have a certain mindset, and within the same organization there is a group who has to

Natural Resources committee  Mr. Chairman, am I talking too long?

Natural Resources committee  Okay, well, I'll watch you and you stop me if I'm going on too long.

Natural Resources committee  Stop me if I am.

Natural Resources committee  They're at risk too. Lives have been lost in that situation also. So there are greater dangers, but sometimes, as I put it in my report, night flights are an imperative. When night flights are an imperative, in my view they shouldn't be scheduled. Rather, a committee, or a grou

Natural Resources committee  You're very kind.

Natural Resources committee  I'd like to comment first on the helicopter. It went down backwards toward the ocean and it got to within 38 feet or something before the pilot recovered control. I didn't know and had not heard that the C-NLOPB had made a statement. When I was contacted by the media, I said we

Natural Resources committee  It was known, but it wasn't known fully. With everything in Canada, really, you have to wait, including train disasters, for example. Take the Lac-Mégantic derailment, which the Transportation Safety Board is obviously working on now. We won't know what really happened for mayb

Natural Resources committee  It was.

Natural Resources committee  And 25 years....