Transport Canada operates with a policy of technological neutrality. It doesn't pick technology and say this one is better than that one, or industry should go here and not there. It creates standard neutral regulations, which allow the best options to succeed and the worst ones to fail.
It's not going to be the role of the transportation department to step forward and urge industry to pursue one option or another. That being said, if there are built-in systematic disadvantages imposed by the absence of a regulatory framework—pilot licensing, cabotage protectionism—then I believe the department could work to solve those problems.
If you could provide it in writing, what we would need in order to make recommendations accordingly is a list of regulations that hinder you; a list of regulations that are needed; what transportation services the federal government purchases that airships could potentially provide; and finally, changes to airport policy that would allow our existing national airports, on a cost-recovery and user-pay basis, to make adjustments to their hangars to accommodate airships.
You don't have to do that now, but if you could provide us succinctly with that information we could potentially endorse it in our final report.