Driver Training - A Man With a Plan

Of course, the bottom line is enforcement.

And this has come up every time we've talked about this.

And one of the things that I brought up in the past is, can we really depend or trust the provinces to handle this properly? Or should it go over to the hands of, for example, Transport Canada? They license pilots, they license locomotive engineers, marine and so on.

Should it be under that umbrella? Is that possible?

That's a great question.

And typically, driver's licensing is a provincial jurisdiction.

It would be interesting to see if the federal government would step into that.

Your guess is as good as mine whether or not they will take that on.

But in order for this to happen, it's in a red seal at a national level.

I think the federal government will have to jump in at some point.

Yeah, I think that's a good point, and it would be great to see that happen because they do not only enforce and watch over pilot training schools, for example.

There are no bad pilot training schools.

The licensing of the pilots is done by the federal government at designated licensing places across the country.

You just can't get away with being a bad pilot.

No, it's very true.

And I would like to see that more on the driver training side as well.

I would welcome that.

I would welcome more compliance and oversight to make sure that the quality of driver training is trustworthy.

That's the key part.

Yeah, I guess it'd be a tough sell to get the federal government, Transport Canada, to take this on.

Don, can you sort of describe for me what a trade is in general terms and how, I mean, I think we understand intuitively what it is, electricians, carpenters, but what actually makes it a quote-unquote trade as opposed to a job or a vocation or something?

Well, Jim, I think the big part of that is it's standardized training, you know, so that when someone comes in to get trained, they're getting the same training no matter what part of the country they're in.

You mean the same curriculum or the same basic skills that are taught or both? Well,

Well, I would think it would be a little of both.

I mean, when you get into, you know, when you get into different terrains, you know, there's going to be the arguments, you know, that if you're in British Columbia, you've got the mountains in British Columbia.