Fisheries committee  Yes.

Fisheries committee  It just happened after the new technology was installed.

Fisheries committee  Correct. A technician flicked the wrong switch.

Fisheries committee  Yes. That can happen anywhere.

Fisheries committee  Right.

Fisheries committee  That was a Coast Guard boat doing radio checks with Iqaluit at the time. From what I recall, they actually called the centre and talked to each other. It was when they were setting up the new equipment. As the Coast Guard stated earlier, they said that the new equipment wouldn'

Fisheries committee  It's as we put it before. It's just like a 911 operator, but the difference is that in a 911 centre, you're waiting for a telephone to ring, and once the phone rings you know it's an emergency. I don't know if you've been at a Newfoundland kitchen party or anything like that. Th

Fisheries committee  I'd have to say no, but those statistics go up and down every year. I don't think the concentration will necessarily cause more accidents, but we don't have any statistics for what will happen in Victoria, for instance, when everything is combined into one room. I mentioned earl

Fisheries committee  In 2003, when this committee did a study of MCTS, they made a recommendation that MCTS should go to a staffing level of seven people per position because of the factors that Mr. Girouard just touched on. That hasn't happened, which has led to excessive overtime. If you look at th

Fisheries committee  I know that Unifor has put in freedom of information requests for any risk assessments or studies or anything else to do with consolidation, and we have not been able to find anything at all.

Fisheries committee  It will either be done from Victoria or Prince Rupert, and if an earthquake happens or a tsunami happens, then it won't be done.

Fisheries committee  That recording is on the new equipment that was installed in Iqaluit when Inuvik was closed. That is from the new equipment. That was from a freedom of information request. We asked for that three years ago and just got it a couple of months ago. I know that recordings were made

Fisheries committee  We prefer “emergency backup”.

Fisheries committee  I don't have those numbers offhand.

Fisheries committee  I think Mr. Gross can speak to that.