Transport committee  The employee assistance program would rest with the individual employer. At Toronto Pearson, over 400 different employers have employees with transportation security clearances. An employee with an issue would go through Air Canada or WestJet or the Greater Toronto Airports Autho

Transport committee  Again, a lot of the employers are not directly contracted with the airport authority. They may be contracted to other agencies, so we don't control those relationships.

Transport committee  Yes, we are subject to both. We have quite a number of Transport Canada inspectors on the security side who are on site 24-7 doing inspections, so these are ad hoc and random. There are also preplanned annual inspections, and I can leave it to Ms. Kinney to describe those better.

Transport committee  There is. We have a non-punitive reporting policy at the Greater Toronto Airports Authority. All airports are required to have one.

Transport committee  I think we're looking at two different firefighting services. When we talk about aircraft, aircraft rescue, and firefighting that is responding to an aircraft, that's a very specialized skill set and requires specialized equipment. The mandate for that, the quantity of services a

Transport committee  I've never experienced a case where a particular contractor is hiring people who are continually denied or refused clearances. It's very much on an individual basis.

Transport committee  That would be the airport security community. We have an airport security committee that is the RCMP, the police of jurisdiction, CSIS, CATSA, and Transport Canada. We have a very robust security management system. You've probably heard of SMS, the safety management system. We h

Transport committee  Yes, there is.

Transport committee  I'm sorry?

Transport committee  We were just going to mention the timelines. We were initially going to say that in 2012 new clearances used to take about a month, and now we're looking at a four- to six-month delay.

Transport committee  For a new applicant, on average we're seeing between three to five months.

Transport committee  Three to five months for a new applicant.

Transport committee  Yes, that is correct.

Transport committee  Thank you, Daniel. Madame Chair, honourable members, I echo Daniel's thanks to you for the opportunity to be here today. The screening of airport workers, as mentioned, has been the focus of the CAC security committee in conjunction with Transport Canada and CATSA for several