A couple of quibbles:
hirley Mah, spokeswoman for the state-owned airline, did not return phone calls on the incident yesterday.
I'm sure most of you know that Air Canada has not been a state-owned airline for, oh, some 20 years or so.
True hypoglycaemia is an infinitesimally rare diagnosis in anyone who is not already known to be a diabetic and diabetics don't hold pilot's licences. People who say they are 'feeling hypo' generally aren't. They are generally just annoyed and irritable because they are hungry.
You can pilot an airliner with Type 2 diabetes in Canada:
1) requiring oral medication only (no insulin): unrestricted provided control criteria are met, more frequent ECGs, stress ECG, etc.
2) insulin dependant, provided certain control criteria are met, more tests, etc as above, but license restricted to "as or with co-pilot".
Interestingly an ATP with a class 1 medical can fall into category 2) above, but a PPL with a class 3 is out for good if insulin-dependent.
Beech