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Transport committee In our current system, every ship above 24 metres must enrol with the classification society and be inspected by them. There are certain provisions. If a ship is too old, let's say, and was not built according to their rules, the ships can opt out or apply to us and ask not to en
November 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Sylvain Lachance
Transport committee We do.
November 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Sylvain Lachance
Transport committee Very briefly, a system that's fully audited and certified for every ship in Canada is difficult to implement at best, for the industry and for Transport as well, in terms of the resources that would be required to do that, without necessarily attaining the objectives so that they
November 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Sylvain Lachance
Transport committee Yes, I fully agree—
November 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Sylvain Lachance
Transport committee The system we've had in place since the early 1990s has served Canada quite well. That was following the Brander-Smith report that was published back in the late 1980s, and the regime was implemented in the early 1990s. The capacity that was identified at the time was 10,000 ton
November 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Sylvain Lachance
Transport committee Well, I could certainly answer, not with the precise numbers, but if we compare the traffic of tankers, for example, on the west coast and what's going on in the St. Lawrence River today in Canada, they're quite different. If we compare it with that in the rest of the world, in p
November 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Sylvain Lachance
Transport committee If you are talking about the Strait of Malacca having 17,000 tankers going through, that's a lot. At Bosporus you are talking about, if my memory serves me right, maybe 1,200 tankers a month.
November 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Sylvain Lachance
Transport committee Port Metro Vancouver right now is at 60 a year.
November 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Sylvain Lachance
Transport committee Yes.
November 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Sylvain Lachance
Transport committee That requirement exists as we speak today, sir.
November 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Sylvain Lachance
Transport committee No; not coming into Canada.
November 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Sylvain Lachance
Transport committee We have a number of measures. One that administration would use is fining a company. We normally call them administrative monetary penalties, or there's suspension of certificates. There's quite an array of measures we can take for enforcement purposes.
November 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Sylvain Lachance
Transport committee The classification societies are delegated by the minister to conduct inspections, and so on. They will deliver certificates to ships on behalf of the Minister of Transport. In conducting their inspection and work, if they determine they cannot deliver a certificate, then the cer
November 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Sylvain Lachance
Transport committee We're proposing a three-tier approach. Tier one is with ships or companies that are pursuant to the SOLAS Convention. They are currently subject to the safety management regulations. Those are ships that will conduct international voyages. Tier two is with vessels that are not s
November 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Sylvain Lachance
Transport committee We have created templates, checklists, and manuals for companies to help them implement SMS. Part of the scheme would be that when we inspect vessels, our inspectors could go on board and ask to see their SMS.
November 27th, 2014Committee meeting
Sylvain Lachance