Transport committee  Currently, as the discussion has been going, on the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence Seaway in the Great Lakes pilotage area our masters and senior navigating officers are piloting their own vessels. They have a safety record that's equal to or better than their GLPA licensed cou

Transport committee  They're concentrators. They're captive to Canadian waters. They're going up and down. They could be on certain lakes, but there's variability. Forty percent of their voyages are under 24 hours long, so they're in and out of ports, locks, canals, rivers, currents—

Transport committee  Thank you. I appreciate the opportunity to respond to that. As to where Transport Canada goes forward, that's up for consultation of course, but right now they, under the bill, will be taking on the responsibility for developing the standards and issuing pilotage certificates.

Transport committee  In addition, it is important for us to note the following five critical changes in the bill: separating of regulatory authority from the delivery of pilotage services; transferring of responsibilities for regulating and issuing pilotage certificates from the pilotage authorities