Transport committee  Fortunately, I haven't really had to look into that abyss. You're exactly right, and it's not restricted, by the way, merely to those three airports: 75% of the Canadian population live within 200 miles of the Canadian border, so any airport within that distance that is offerin

Transport committee  Let me intrude for a moment. The air carriers collect the information, and I agree with you that they, like a whole host of companies, use the data they collect for their marketing purposes, but the point we're talking about is that at least in Canada the data they are collecti

Transport committee  I would have to defer to Mr. Salter on this one. As I said, the airport authority is not actually the one collecting or remitting airport data, so I would have to defer to someone else. Mr. Salter, is that...?

Transport committee  I'm afraid that as the airport authorities do not collect data like this, I'm not very equipped to answer that question. I would defer to my colleagues here, who are suggesting API information, but I'm afraid it's not information that we collect, so I'm unfortunately not able to

Transport committee  They have, absolutely. That said, we are working very hard in a very competitive field to try to attract different types of traffic out of the United States. One of the things this really underlines, and I think it's very important for us to recognize it, is that the North Amer

Transport committee  I can just speak about Pearson. There are 42,000 people who work at Pearson airport.

Transport committee  We had to engage in some layoffs. There were some contractions. Air Canada has about 11,000 people working at Pearson. WestJet has well over 1,000. We are a dynamic employer and we want to be able to make sure we continue to be. That's very much our mission.

Transport committee  Absolutely.

Transport committee  Yes.

Transport committee  Obviously I don't agree that we should wait for a redress mechanism. You just don't. It's not in the cards at this point.

Transport committee  Sure, I'd be happy to. I take your point that in fact Bill C-42 has been preceded by tremendous discussions. These are large and agonizing questions, because they're balancing human rights and security, and one would assume that the conversation will continue. The fact that you'

Transport committee  I'm just the simple airport guy at the end. The point that I would like to make has been touched upon already. It is that right now there is a time issue concerning both Bill C-42 and the issue about U.S. sovereignty and U.S. demands with respect to what it is going to do with

Transport committee  Good morning. My presentation will be in English, but you can ask me questions in French. My name is Toby Lennox. I am vice-president of corporate affairs and communications for the Greater Toronto Airports Authority. I first would like to thank you very much for the opportunit

Official Languages committee  We have not received any directives, but what we're doing is working very closely with the official languages commissioner's office in Toronto. In fact, Graham Fraser was in our terminal yesterday. We are working with them on training programs. Our relationship is primarily with

Official Languages committee  We'd be quite happy to provide our plans both for the Olympic Games and for the long term. In terms of tools we could use, we could always use additional funding, but that's really not the solution. One of the things that we have found to be particularly helpful is working with