Transport committee  Yes. I'm sure that the U.S. is not quite open to it. I'll let my colleague answer that.

Transport committee  It's 140 million trips.

Transport committee  First of all, you should have travelled on a Canadian airline. You would have gotten better service, for sure. I want to raise the question that was asked to the minister this morning as to why this is in regulations rather than law. I think the minister stated that it's easier

Transport committee  If I may, as I mentioned, that would all depend on the compensation that is set, the format that is set. If compensation is beyond reasonable, that can only drive up costs down the line. I can give you an example. Two of my brothers travelled back from Europe this summer, and t

Transport committee  Good afternoon. My name is John McKenna. I'm the president of the Air Transport Association of Canada. ATAC has represented Canada's commercial air transport industry since 1934. We have approximately 190 members engaged in commercial aviation, operating in every region of Cana

Transport committee  Yes, clearly, that is one of the points we are making. They're not subjected to the same kind of working environment therefore you can't apply the same exact regulations. You have to be able to adapt regulations to the environment. That's the objective and that's the purpose of t

Transport committee  If that were the case, you would probably cease having air service in the north. It already is not a profitable industry there because of the land masses and the population up there. To add costs to operating those services would probably mean the end of those services.

Transport committee  Foreign ownership is not necessarily a safety-related issue, in our opinion. Some people feel it could help bring capital to Canada. I think there's a misconception that this would help create low-cost carriers in Canada. There will never be low-cost carriers in Canada with the f

Transport committee  Our industry has grown, but the rate of incidents and accidents has not kept pace. Of course, the rate may vary because a single incident can completely change the data, but generally speaking, our performance is improving and the number of incidents is dropping.

Transport committee  Yes. In general, it is decreasing. There are always years that are—

Transport committee  Our concern is not so much about security as it is about the financial aspect. Privatization like this could have a financial impact. In any event, I would hope that privatization would be duly governed by regulations stating that standards should be maintained. Our concern about

Transport committee  No, we would be less competitive.

Transport committee  If I may say, I respectfully disagree with Judge Virgil Moshansky as far as the lack of regulatory oversight is concerned. There is regulatory oversight in our industry—ask any carrier about that. There is, however, a misallocation of where resources should be within the departme

Transport committee  Our industry is growing steadily at a rate of about 5% annually.

Transport committee  Our industry is ridden with user fees already. The government collects about $1 billion a year in different fees from our industry, and very little of it actually goes back to Transport Canada. We certainly don't need an additional fee in our industry, and there's no guarantee th