Transport committee  Unfortunately, you're asking me to form an opinion on a particular issue that you're raising. All I can again say is that our job is to conduct investigations after we've had a serious incident or accident. The responsibility for commenting on the safety of the operation or regul

Transport committee  I apologize. But again it is a question for Transport Canada, and they are the ones responsible for the regulations and the application.

Transport committee  Part II is there to establish how DND is going to investigate those specific types of occurrences dealing with military accidents and incidents and their civilians. That's all I can comment upon. Again, their legislation is relatively similar to the safety board's legislation.

Transport committee  Under our mandate and our legislation, we have a responsibility to establish MOUs with organizations that we may come in contact with during investigations. In that regard, we have a working arrangement between ourselves and the director of flight safety in DND on the conduct of

Transport committee  Currently the division is based on the type of aircraft being flown. If it were a military aircraft being flown, it would be DND's responsibility to conduct that investigation. If it involved a civilian establishment besides that, we would conduct a coordinated investigation betw

Transport committee  It would be based on our working arrangements. We have a matrix that decides who would lead the investigation, but we would conduct a coordinated investigation with DND.

Transport committee  Our legislation dates back to 1998. Their legislation is coming into force now, so there are some minor differences between the legislation, but not significant ones.

Transport committee  We will be updating ours as well. The last time we updated was 1998, I believe. We'll be looking at reviewing our legislation again. On the big difference in legislation being proposed under part II, those occurrences for which they will have additional powers are not investiga

Transport committee  There's the potential for that, but I believe our working arrangements with DND basically cover all anticipated situations.

Transport committee  If we had the conceivable one we would be amending the agreement we have.

Transport committee  The protocol has provisions for us to conduct coordinated investigations with DND.

Transport committee  Yes.

Transport committee  I have a general comment on that. If so, those types of issues would be part of our investigation. If we found an issue like that contributing to the occurrence, we'd definitely report it in our report and make a finding as to the cause or a contributing factor associated with it

Transport committee  That's our mandate. The mandate to ensure the ongoing, everyday safety of that particular company rests with Transport Canada.

Transport committee  That's right, both for ourselves and Transport Canada.