Transport committee  It doesn't matter. No.

Transport committee  France has been answering the same question in the same way. If you go back to the intent of proposed section 5.392, it talks about information gathered under SMS, and that is non-critical information in terms of a major incident or an accident. It is critical information to prevent an incident or an accident.

Transport committee  That's the idea.

Transport committee  I have another example for you. We have a charter that doesn't permit us to discriminate on the basis of age. There is an ICAO rule that discriminates against age; we filed a difference against that. There's a better example than the one I spoke about, with Captain Maurino, to give you an example of where we just can't do some of these things.

Transport committee  As you may recall, probably the most eloquent example already read into the record came from Captain Maurino of ICAO. He gave the example of the AQP program. This is a qualified program to ensure currency for pilots, which is not in compliance with ICAO; this is an FAA requirement.

Transport committee  I have just an observation about the way that's worded. If you're binding the minister to international standards, you should be aware that you may be defeating the very purpose here. Generally speaking, ICAO standards are below Canadian standards.

Transport committee  An agenda put forward during an election campaign? Those two items that you referred to were regular business, forecasted and processed for months in advance. If you're asking me whether I even recognize the timing, I would have to say I did not recognize the timing. I'm a public servant.

Transport committee  Under whose authority were they issued?

Transport committee  It was solely mine.

Transport committee  It never crossed our minds. Forecasts and risk assessments were done—all this work was done months and months before. The fact that it came out in December was just the fact that it came out in December. We were ready to put it out.

Transport committee  Yes, that's the area of highest risk. They cover about 98% of the passenger miles flown.

Transport committee  I didn't say it wasn't accurate. What I said was that as the minister has indicated, we would be more than pleased to work on something for the minister to present here, which would put some box around that title. Frankly, it's not a new provision. It's been there for the five or six or seven years that we were looking at it, and we never looked at it the way you gentlemen have looked at it.

Transport committee  The pilot project report is available. It's on our Internet.

Transport committee  With respect, you're mixing up the designation clause with SMS. They're totally separate.

Transport committee  Not at all. It's ad hoc, totally. First of all, you have to have a partner willing to take on some responsibility. Then you have to have a need, and then you'll go forward. We are discussing with air applicators and we are discussing with COPA, as was mentioned earlier.