Zaphod, I doubt that in spite of the "race to the bottom" that any sane Canadian airline manager would consider hiring any one holding a MPL. After Air France and Asiana, my insurance company has made it quite clear that they will not cover operators who may go this route. Where I live a backhoe operator requires more training than a MPL if he wants to work on public projects, unless said backhoe operator digs up a gas pipe line its unlikely he/she could kill as many people in four minutes as Air France did. You just gota love our minister of transport, Lisa Rait, "this was introduced to increase safety", The late director of flight training in TC must have trouble sleeping at night after allowing this in to Canada!