Transport committee  Thank you very much.

Transport committee  The IPA agreement was an agreement between Transport Canada and the FAA. If there was anything that did not warrant additional scrutiny, the other validating authority would essentially rubber-stamp that plan. Anything that had a high risk would have a lot more detailed scrutiny.

Transport committee  We, or at least I, don't have any faith in the FAA. It seems they are cheerleaders for Boeing. That's what it sounds like. They have praised the Max, stating that it's the safest plane ever. This is after they've done the fix. There is no way it will ever be as safe as its predec

Transport committee  Is that better?

Transport committee  I agree with exactly what Paul stated. Peter DeFazio, chair of the transportation and infrastructure committee in Congress, did a fantastic job of uncovering a lot of issues, but there are still a lot of details we do not know anything about. For instance, there's the whole idea

Transport committee  Over the last 20 months, there's been a lot that we've had to uncover and unpack, travelling to the States and sitting through their congressional and Senate hearings and trying to understand and learn anything about the planes and the aviation system. We've had to learn so much

Transport committee  Mr. Chair and other members of this committee, we are here today to call for an independent inquiry into Transport Canada's validation of the Boeing 737 Max. Because our government didn't fully understand what they were validating, Transport Canada was essentially rubber-stamping