Back when Transport Canada decided that passenger safety would be the responsibility of SMS paperwork rather than Transport Canada inspectors, the biggest justification was that there was now a "Responsible Executive" with the operational and financial authority to make safety decisions.
Here we have a passenger fatality under the following circumstances:
1. When West Wind commenced operations into Fond-du-Lac Airport (CZFD) in 2014, no effective risk controls were in place to mitigate the potential hazard of ground icing at CZFD
6. Because the available inspection equipment was inadequate ... the full extent of the residual ice and ongoing accretion was unknown to the flight crew
7. Departing from remote airports, such as CZFD, with some amount of surface contamination on the aircraft’s critical surfaces, had become common practice, in part due to the inadequacy of de-icing equipment or services at these locations.
19. If a company’s safety culture tolerates unsafe practices, there is a risk that these practices will continue and become a company norm.
20. If organizations do not adequately identify hazards and analyze risks, potential mitigation methods can be overlooked, increasing the risk of an adverse consequence.
What action was taken against the "Responsible Executive"? Are there any consequences to profit maximizing corner cutting that leads to a passenger fatality? Or is this acceptable behaviour for a "Responsible Executive"?