Originally Posted by
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Not relevant. The contract is between Garda and GTAA. Garda is not meeting its obligations, so GTAA should terminate the contract with cause and hire another security firm. Plain and simple.
Now, if the Garda still meets Service Level Agreements despite the job action, then some heads at GTAA should start rolling right about now for crappy supplier management.
Accountability is a ......
If I'm not mistaken (not an expert on these matters east of YWG), Garda currently has a contract directly with CATSA, not the GTAA and if that isn't the case, it will definitely be the case come November 1. The federal legislation that regulates this (CATSA Act) lists contracting private companies and delegating to airport authorities to contract private companies among the options to implement airport security in Canada. The former option is the predominant one currently, and will become the only one on November 1 as far as I know. When the screeners walked out in YYC in 2004, the contractor then (Aeroguard Group) was very shortly cut away in YYC, YEG and YMM. However, because of the apparently warm relationship between Garda and CATSA they will actually be expanding their nationwide presence.
CATSA is too messed up to be fixed. It needs to be abolished and the leadership's heads placed on stakes to make an example of them.