Transport committee  Last year I entered into a project with Defence Research and Development Canada specifically to deal with countermeasures and what we might be able to use to intercept a UAV that's flying in a location that it shouldn't be. We tried everything from paintball guns to our intervent

Transport committee  What I've found today is that we need to look at both, because they are working on it at the same time, but because of the issue in front of everybody right now with drones, I think that companies themselves are working at a faster pace.

Transport committee  The recommendations we've given so far are recommendations on how to make the system better. An example would be with one of the systems we fly. You fly it by a tablet, so you basically have a pen, and wherever you push on the screen, that's where the helicopter is going to fly

Transport committee  As I stated earlier, with the new technology, we're just starting to get more calls on that type of incident. I don't know of any charges laid at this time for the peeping Tom issue. I know that we are getting a significant number of calls for UAVs being in an area where they sho

Transport committee  I would also say yes to that. We have liaised with Transport Canada, Nav Canada, and the National Research Council. We attend conferences and whatnot and deal with the manufacturers on a daily basis. I can tell you that some of the manufacturers have taken our recommendations an

Transport committee  Some of the manufacturers of these aircraft are starting to put geofencing on their systems. An example of this is DJI, which is a Chinese company. Their UAVs, in the newest firmware upgrade, have a number of restricted airspaces in Canada that are already put into the program, s

Transport committee  Sir, I think it's important to note that with the proliferation of UAVs in the airspace, this whole technology is relatively new, and it's expanding at a very large rate. Because the whole industry is so new, geofencing and detection technology is also very new. It's hard to put

Transport committee  I agree with those comments. The only other thing I would like to point out is that when you deal with countermeasures, the technology in countermeasures is changing daily. In the RCMP, we have done a lot of testing with it. What we're finding is that there's no one system that

Transport committee  Good morning. My name is Staff Sergeant Dave Domoney. I'm with CAP, contract and aboriginal policing, as well. I run the UAV program for the RCMP. In answer to the question, when we deal with transponders on aircraft, NAV Canada would usually answer that question, just because t