I'm just wondering, because maybe this is a way of giving the minister power to block a project that could be harmful to the surrounding environment. I'll tell you, the airport authorities are pretty independent-minded. They do create advisory bodies, and they're staffed by good people and so on, but you really get a sense, if you're in an airport community, that you don't have leverage through the federal government. I think that frustrates a lot of people.
I understand you can't allow political considerations to dictate flight paths. It's very complicated. Then again, that's what had been said for many years about train speeds. I remember writing to the minister, asking him or her—I can't remember—to lower train speeds for trains moving through my riding, and the answer was that there was a coordinated system across Canada and it was very technical. Yet after the Lac-Mégantic tragedy, all of a sudden some communities were able to get reductions in train speeds. Anyway, it's a very interesting issue and I thank you for being here.
Ms. McIntyre, just to follow up on what I think was Mr. Cullen's question. I wasn't here when the department came and we were able to question them on this, but where does this come from? I guess it's because the government wants to have some kind of intellectual consistency with regard to its position on medical services to failed refugee claimants. Do you think that might be the reason? It's almost as though it wants to make sure that all the pieces of the puzzle logically fit together, so that if you're going to deny failed refugee claimants medical services, you don't want to be in contradiction with yourself by not allowing social assistance to be reduced. Would you see it that way? It is odd that it doesn't benefit the federal government financially in any way. No one, no province, has asked for this.