CMAC Ottawa - April 23 + 24

Thank you for your email,

Your concerns can all be addressed at the Standing Committee on personnel that I chair.

With respect to the differences between the SVOP and the MED A3 you should be aware that these training courses have all been reviewed in July 2007.

Capt. Diane Couture, Manager nautical certification and pilotage can address your concern more specifically. She will be available at CMAC.

With respect to the PCOC program, we have revamped the entire online program with a much rigid on line study and an exam of 56 questions.
This system was released on April 1st 2011.

Krista Kendall, Chief, National Pleasure Craft Operator Competency Program, who is copied on this message, can provide you with further details and she will be available to review any issues you may have at CMAC.

Both Diane and Krista work with me and can be contacted directly.

Regards
Naim

Naim Nazha
Director, personnel standards and pilotage

Pointe Au Baril 'Information session' with Transport Canada (Inspector Brian Kennedy)

Tentatively set for April 17^th at the Point Au Baril Community Center 10am.

Being organized by Scott from the Ironworker. Armin Grigatis (A+A Enterprises, Honey Harbour and President of the SCVA and myself (Matt Overend, Craganmor Point Resort, board member-SCVA) are planning to attend as representatives of the SCVA to explain what our organization is doing with regard to these 'new' TC regulations.

Confirmation of CMAC Presentation 2 by SCVA

Good morning,

The CMAC team have indicated that we have the opportunity today to modify the agenda for the Domestic Vessel Regulatory Oversight Standing Committee. We could add a presentation from the Small Commercial Vessel Association in Ontario to the afternoon Small Vessel Discussion.

 As Julie Gascon mentioned, there is also a BC industry group that will be part of the afternoon agenda http://www.marineservices.gc.ca/eng/cmac/standingCommittee/domesticVesselRegulatoryOversight2012.htm .

This means you would not need to add your agenda item at the morning opening of the Standing Committee.

Am I correct to identify your group as the Small Commercial Vessel Association in Ontario? We normally identify the speaker which I’ll do if you provide the name.

The afternoon is already quite full, so if the presentation can respect a  10 minute period that would be helpful.

We are hoping we can receive a copy of the presentation this week.

Please let me know if I can be of further assistance,

Christine Arsenault Project Manager | Gestionnaire de projet Domestic Vessel Regulatory Oversight / Surveillance règlementaire des bâtiments canadiens
Transport Canada | Transports Canada
330 Sparks Street, 11th floor | 330 rue Sparks, 11e étage
Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0N8
tel: | tél: 613 949-3899

Confirmation for CMAC Presentation 1 by SCVA

Good Morning ,

Your item will be considered under agenda item 5  “Other Business / Stakeholder Submissions”of the Standing Committee on Personnel.

I would appreciate receiving a copy of your presentation by the end of this week in order to allocate proper time for it.

Best regards

Naim

:. Naim Nazha
Director | Directeur
Marine personnel Standards and Pilotage | Normes du personnel maritime et pilotage
Marine Safety | Sécurité maritime
Transport Canada | Transports Canada
330, Sparks street, 8^th Floor, Ottawa ON K1A 0N8 | 330,rue Sparks, 8e étage, Ottawa (Ontario) K1A 0N8
naim.nazha@tc.gc.ca
Telephone | Téléphone 613-990-4350
Facsimile | Télécopieur 613-990-1538
Government of Canada | Gouvernement du Canada

National CMAC Details

The upcoming National CMAC Meeting will take place in Ottawa at the Government Conference Centre located at 2 Rideau Street.

The meeting will commence with Opening Plenary at 9:00 a.m. on Monday, April 23, 2012 and conclude at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 26, 2012 with Closing Plenary.

        

Please submit your Pre-Registration Form before April 13, 2012.

Draft agendas for your review are available online at http://www.marineservices.gc.ca/eng/cmac/cmac.htm

Thank you on behalf of the National CMAC Secretariat Team.

Cassandra Parker

Project Manager

CMAC Secretariat / Secrétariat du CCMCLegislative, Regulatory and International Affairs / Affaires législatives, réglementaires et internationalesMarine Safety Transport Canada / Sécurité maritime Transports Canada

330 Sparks Street, Tower C / 330, rue Sparks, Tour COttawa, Ontario K1A 0N8 / (Ottawa) Ontario K1A 0N8 Government of Canada / Gouvernement du Canada

SCVA Meeting Update

Our SCV Association meeting on April 4th went well. We concentrated on the upcoming National CMAC Meeting in Ottawa on April 24/25 and divided up tasks/areas for each board member to research for our presentation(s).

We are contacting Transport Canada to find out exactly how much time we will be allowed for a presentation so we have a solid time frame to work too. We are also hoping that we will only need to be there for one day as that alone is a big time commitment for all of us right now! (now looking like 2 days)

We have reserved website names and have them confirmed. Once we get approval for all of them (now done) and get an email address we will begin to build a website as well as start a Blog/Facebook/Twitter media setup for the Association. When that is done and bank acct/signing officers setup (NOW DONE) for Electronic Fund Transfers we will be able to make a big push for membership. We have been holding back on this as we don't want to disappoint people because we are not fully set up and also want to appear organized.

We are also working towards assessing the total number of Small Commercial Vessels in Ontario. This is, in a way, is our most important task for a number of reasons;
1) nobody really knows how many there are
2) the higher the number the more weight we will carry with TC
3) most of the owners/operators don't know about these 'new' rules, don't realize they are 'commercial' and therefore don't realize they are operating illegally!

Assessing this number accurately is tricky and we don't want to get it wrong and be told by Transport Canada we 'made facts up'. We have talked through going to the 'Ontario Marine Operators Association' but feel that it is impossible for them to know who is commercial and who isn't (see 3 above). We have decided that the best initial approach (for the CMAC meeting on April 23-26) is for us as individuals to approach the marina owners that we know personally and ask them to take a look at their boats and tell us how many operate commercially (including the part time real estate and satellite dish installers etc.).

As the marina owners know their customers well and their boats intimately, that number in conjunction with the total numbers of vessels in the marina will give us an very accurate percentage per marina. As our board members know each marina owner personally we should be able to get this info quickly, perhaps with a little help from my Chamber of Commerce. This 'calculation' will be repeated for all the marinas our board members know personally giving a very accurate 'snap shot' of the percentage of commercial boats as a whole in our area. If we then go to the Ontario Marina Association and ask for the total number of boats in Ontario we can start to put a 'guesstimate' of the total number of Small Commercial Vessels. This secondary number will not be completely accurate but we have to start somewhere!!

Also attending our meeting was an insurance agent who does a lot of work for our board members. We questioned him on how the insurance companies see the Transport Canada regulations and there enforcement and also how they might react in a injury or accidental death scenario on a boat that is technically 'illegal' (by TC standards). Tim made some interesting points and him and I are tasked with developing these into the CMAC presentation and also as a discussion paper for Tony Clements office.

SCV Association Board meeting-Wednesday evening

Quick update! We (the Board ) are meeting Wednesday evening (tomorrow, April 4th) to discuss progress and our presentation to the national CMAC meeting in Ottawa, April 23rd.

Will keep you all updated!!