Transport committee  Ideally it would be. We've seen the curriculum that's been laid out. There's a draft of it. In the analogy to the pleasure craft operator card program, there's a set of standards that need to be covered.

Transport committee  That was because at the time you couldn't operate. They couldn't even get the training done in the United States. Eighteen months ago, you couldn't legally operate a drone commercially in the United States.

Transport committee  Now they can. I have to say that because of that limitation, it's not that it wasn't happening, it's just that it wasn't legal.

Transport committee  We would do our very best to help you get that reciprocity, but obviously, we couldn't determine that. We understand very well what the requirements are, and we would like to help Transport ensure that there is reciprocity, for sure.

Transport committee  All of our courses have a very strong ethical component to them. In building out that curriculum, if these are key issues, of course there's legal ramifications, and any operator needs to know what the regulatory requirements are. That has to be in the training, of course, but th

Transport committee  Certainly, if those are going to be the legal requirements, and if that's what we want the course to cover, it can cover whatever the curriculum would mandate. I would argue that it wouldn't just be the rules and regulations. Sometimes you need to go beyond that into some areas w

Transport committee  That's an interesting topic, and you're right. There are some limitations on the drones that are available right now. If you asked a number of the manufacturers about the current regulations, one of the topics is a design requirement.

Transport committee  Right, and I guess that design requirement would criminalize them for doing those types of things. They would have to sign off on not making some of these design requirements. It's a bit of a balance. You heard other witnesses earlier. Some of those modifications they are making

Transport committee  I think one of the things that we would love to be able to do is give people a great foundation. When we implemented the pleasure craft operator card program with Transport Canada back in the mid to late 1990s, there were a lot of people who had very little experience operating b

Transport committee  I don't think it would be at point of sale. I think there would be a compliance opportunity. The training right now, the testing for the operator's certificate, the part 107 of the FAA is extremely rigorous. You could not take it at a Best Buy and do very well. I think we have to

Transport committee  I think we'll always want to respect reciprocity, certainly with the commercial operator certification process, but we could also streamline it. There are opportunities to learn from what the FAA has done and do it better. Specifically, to that end, the FAA looked long and hard a

Transport committee  Thank you, Madam Chair, and committee members for the opportunity to appear today. As a proud Canadian and a small business owner, I'm very excited about the potential for unmanned aerial vehicles, UAVs, both in Canada and globally. I look forward to sharing my thoughts and insi