Transport committee  I can't give you any precise numbers because we're still collecting all these numbers, but the impact is that it's slowing down our recovery, of course. That's our concern here; it's our ability to serve the travelling public. A comment I want to make, which complements what's b

Transport committee  Oh, I'd say it has in the last 50 years.

Transport committee  The government needs to act more as a partner than as a collector of taxes. We need them to be a partner. Everyone on this panel today has indicated that we work with government hand in hand. All these people are partners in the passenger experience, and they need to be there to

Transport committee  Thank you. Our industry is currently suffering from delays of a kind never seen before in connection with services from Transport Canada or other government organizations. The delays are staggering, whether for issuing access cards to restricted areas, certifying pilot qualifica

Transport committee  We've always had a challenge with getting skilled labour, be they maintenance, pilots or whatever they do. The situation now has expanded so that shortages are at all levels of service employee in our environment. The problem is that the passenger experience suffers because of a

Transport committee  Yes, that's a good example. Everyone in the industry was shocked to see that the government didn't assist Nav Canada, which provides a service that we consider essential. Nav Canada requested government assistance after its revenue fell 90%, but the government told it that, since

Transport committee  Thank you. Good afternoon. The Air Transport Association of Canada has represented this country's commercial air transport industry since 1934. Our 175 members are engaged in all levels of commercial aviation and flight training in every region of Canada. Our membership include

Transport committee  We have written letters basically every month since March to the Minister of Transport, the Minister of Finance, the Minister of Economic Development and the Prime Minister. Basically we are doing two things. We are identifying what kind of help would be required and we're offeri

Transport committee  That's right. We have not had any kind of response to any of those from anybody. We are talking to the ministers' offices; I have to be frank on that. They do return our calls. We have a conversation going on with them, but it's not really a dialogue. We're asking for things, a

Transport committee  We are certainly not against helping large businesses. That is important. We have an aviation continuum in Canada, so we want to make sure that smaller carriers get something too. They connect with the larger carriers and the regional centres in Canada. We are very concerned abo

Transport committee  The only answer I can see to that is that you can't continuously do that. Obviously if you're going to relax measures, it's because you have measures in place that allow you to do that regardless of what happens. I think we have to avoid that at all costs.

Transport committee  Good afternoon. The Air Transport Association of Canada represents this country's commercial aviation and has done so since 1934. We have approximately 180 members engaged in all levels of commercial aviation, operating in every region of Canada. We welcome this opportunity to s

Finance committee  Thank you, sir. Actually, our industry needs liquidity. That's all we need. We don't need to get further in debt. We need liquidity. That's what we've been asking the government to provide. That's the answer.

Finance committee  Actually, we're looking at that right now, what's being done elsewhere, what the laws allow us to do, because the privacy laws in Canada are very strict. We also have to be concerned about the different levels of airports in Canada. You can have a system for international airpo

Finance committee  I'm just surprised it took so long for that question to be tabled. I think that carriers right now are struggling to survive; they don't have the cash flow. Not everybody has the same philosophy as far as our current policy on reimbursement goes. Many have done it. The few that