Transport committee  Thank you. I would like to give whatever time I have left to Mr. Lavigne so that he can come back into the conversation.

Transport committee  Thank you all for coming. Bob, Michael, Richard and Martin, it's nice to see you again. I don't have a ton of time. I want to reinforce this, because this is coming to a close really quickly and the committee will have to deliberate on recommendations to the Government of Canada

Transport committee  Thank you, witnesses, for coming today. I want to thank Ms. Bell. I used your letter. I got dozens of letters on this topic, and I used yours in its entirety in my remarks in the House. Something that hasn't come up is we're losing a significant amount of the limited capacity

Transport committee  Thank you for that. Mr. Armstrong, has the military looked at what future air crew training looks like, how that's going to be delivered? Do you think that, given both the domestic need and the global need for pilots, it could be structured in a way that it could incorporate so

Transport committee  Thank you very much. I believe that's my time.

Transport committee  Thank you all very much for coming. I appreciate that. Marc, you ran out of time. I want to give you an opportunity to finish what you wanted to say, and then I have a question.

Transport committee  Thank you for that. It's been pretty clear that we need more students. We need to remove the barriers to getting them into flight training. Obviously, there's a financial piece. That's probably the biggest speed bump on that note. We need to train them faster and we need more in

Transport committee  I'm talking about training people to be competent versus just saying for this phase of flying that they need so many hours. That may not be suitable for ab initio pilot training, but certainly for a commercial standard or an airline transport rating standard, once we get further

Transport committee  It's okay. I'll move to Mike.

Transport committee  Do you have an opinion on that?

Transport committee  Right. I would agree with you. The standard has to be maintained throughout the entire process. It certainly wouldn't be applicable to every phase of flight training, in my opinion, and based on my experience, but I think it might shorten the process in areas where it made sense.

Transport committee  Do you have any idea of how much shorter that training footprint would be in the earlier stages of, say, PPL or CPL?

Transport committee  Thank you all for coming. I realize you have a limited amount of time and we're here to talk about the problems, but I think we all appreciate that being in aviation is a fantastic career. I certainly enjoyed my time in aviation. I want to spend some time talking to Dr. Kearns

Transport committee  Thanks for that. I've done a wide variety of training as a student and as an instructor. At what point, though, can you wind that back in the training process? Flying is very dynamic, and you're not always going to be exposed to everything that you'll ever see, even if it's in

Transport committee  Thank you very much. I want to quickly talk a little bit more about the airport capital assistance program, because it is part of the infrastructure. I remember Trail came to see the Pacific caucus in Kelowna. They ended up getting a pretty nice-sized grant from the federal gov