I'm certainly glad you asked the question. Thank you very much.
It's the number one issue for Atlantic Canada airports and, in particular, for small airports.
As an example, in Moncton we received a call last year that Air Canada Vacations—we had a sun destination airline—called and said they probably wouldn't be back in 2006. They were true to their word and didn't come back because of the fees that were being charged.
For example, we have a flight from Germany, from Hanover to Moncton, and it's being charged $3,500 a landing. We're in danger of losing that.
Perhaps the most explicit example is Fredericton paying $200,000 a year to the Canadian Border Services Agency for after-hour services on a Delta flight, which is a daily flight to Boston, seven days a week. As a community and as an airport, they were successful in attracting that particular service. With the kind of money they're now paying, they are actually not making any money because of the fees they're expending in support of the Canadian Border Services Agency.
The other thing that's not known is that this isn't a fee that you pay for coverage, for example, from five o'clock until midnight, and it covers the entire spectrum. This is a fee that is charged every time you bring a service in. If they bring in another service, they will pay another $200,000. It's very expensive.
At a time when airports, small airports in particular, are struggling to attract these types of fights, and you have to tell them they have to pay $3,500 or $200,000 a year to come into your community, they certainly look around to see if there are other airports that don't charge these services for after-hour fights.