Transport committee  Yes, that's the case. However—I'm trying to find the right words to explain it.

Transport committee  No, that's fine. Dealing with on-board recorders is like having a tape that is listening to what the crew is saying all the time, so initially when they wanted to kick in that concept in the civilian world, there were a lot of concerns about privacy. They don't want tapes to be

Transport committee  Exactly. So that's why it became.... There's a law, an act, that was voted to protect that type of information. When it comes to the military, that's the same idea, however this part we're talking about is for the military to be able.... It's going to help us also because it's a

Transport committee  They have no problem with this because most of them right now expect they're going to.... When you join the forces, they expect this type of thing can happen. We can listen to the tape. I'm going across Canada because part of my role is to promote flight safety and I'm doing the

Transport committee  To permit? No, because we already make the report public.

Transport committee  We're trying to say what I was explaining a little earlier, the fact that if he wanted right now he could say we're not going to make it public.

Transport committee  No.

Transport committee  Yes, it is.

Transport committee  Would you like to clarify that? That 's new, we are right?

Transport committee  My job is to conduct investigations and report on their results to the minister's office. I have never had to make such a decision, but I think that, if the situation presented itself, this decision would be made when the investigation's results were reported. Investigations ar

Transport committee  We work closely with the Transportation Safety Board of Canada. I met with that organization's representatives about two months ago. We have a memorandum of understanding for training. We do need to have a parallel process, as we are trying to be equivalent, to a certain extent.

Transport committee  Allow me to clarify. Since the 2000s, once an investigation is completed, the relevant report is published on a website available to the general public. All investigations, without exception, are published in that manner. My responsibility is to submit investigation reports to

Transport committee  To my knowledge, only operational factors or matters of national security could justify an exception. Let's use the example of the helicopter crashes in Afghanistan. Our investigators on site may have been more careful in the drafting of their reports if they had good reasons to

Transport committee  It is more due to the comprehensiveness of the investigative process. The objective of our investigations is not to establish administrative measures or to impose disciplinary measures, but rather to determine the cause of the accident and to figure out what needs to be done to

Transport committee  Mr. Chair, good morning. It will be me. I am colonel Steve Charpentier, the Director of Flight Safety for the Royal Canadian Air Force. I am also the Airworthiness Investigative Authority for the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces, known throughout the