Transport committee  I can speak specifically to the four certifying partners, Brazil, the Europeans, us and the FAA. The FAA has certified the aircraft, and all three other partners have validated the aircraft. This will allow other authorities, and you can imagine global authorities all over the wo

Transport committee  I'll go back to my opening remarks, in that the coordination and collaboration between international authorities has been significant from the beginning of this process. The FAA are the certifying authority, but as my colleague Dave pointed out in some of the changes that were ju

Transport committee  I'll take it, Mr. Chair. No, it wasn't a rubber stamp. I'll refer back to one of the key issues that have found us here today, which was that the company, Boeing, was withholding information from the FAA with regard to the full extent of the MCAS system. The validation approach

Transport committee  I'll speak to this, because The Globe and Mail article mentioned that the senior person was me. I can speak to this directly. In fact, when our expert came to us with the idea of looking at the MCAS of the aircraft, the first thing Dave and I did was to really start to explore

Transport committee  Mr. Chair, as to the comment that the aircraft is the safest in the world, I've never mentioned that, nor would I. It undermines the fact that the certification system is based on clear sets of regulations. We ensure that all aircraft meet those regulations and standards, so when

Transport committee  For that question, I'll turn to my colleague, Mr. Turnbull.

Transport committee  There are two components to that question I'd like to address: one, how Canada would prevent that; and two, how our certification partners, as well, have learned to prevent that. First I'll speak to the Canadian perspective. I can say without doubt that the approach we take with

Transport committee  I'll go back again to a comment, and probably a recognition, which I would ask the committee for consideration of. While among certification authorities across the world—particularly EASA, ANAC, us and the FAA—we do work together and collaborate in the certification and validatio

Transport committee  No, there was no external pressure to recertify either from Boeing or the three air operators that operate the aircraft in Canada.

Transport committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Since our last appearance, Transport Canada aviation safety experts have completed their independent review of the design changes of the Boeing 737 MAX, and have validated the changes after a 22-month investigation, involving in excess of about 16,000 hours

Transport committee  Good evening, Mr. Chair, Ms. and Mr. Vice-Chair and committee members. I'll be speaking on behalf of both Dave and me. Let me begin by reintroducing myself. My name is Nicholas Robinson. As the director general of civil aviation at Transport Canada, I'm responsible for leading

Transport committee  We met with CUPE earlier on in this process. I can actually report to the committee that we're meeting with CUPE again—and that was set before their appearance on Tuesday—to outline exactly how...and the conclusions we brought with regard to our validation and what they can expec

Transport committee  We need to know the information in order to certify a product, the full set of information. As we've described here today, when information is not known by a validating authority, things can go wrong, and in this instance, something did go wrong. Our expectation from a manufactur

Transport committee  Absolutely. I take the point that was made, Mr. Chair. The terminology of “concern paper” needs work, and you may see changes moving forward on that. A concern paper, if it's related to a serious safety risk, would not remain open if that safety risk hasn't been addressed. How

Transport committee  If we had found anything in the validation process that was a concern, that addressed a safety risk that hadn't been finalized or brought to a conclusion in our validation process, the aircraft wouldn't have been validated in Canada.