I didn't say “absurd”, but they are unrealistic. I did that CBC interview.
They are unrealistic. For instance, as an old regulator, a Transport Canada inspector, I know that if you have a rule, you need to have a way in which to enforce it. Transport Canada, for whatever reason, is putting things in the rules, such as, for instance, that a pilot will get 15 minutes for a lunch break every six hours. How can you enforce that? That's why we're talking about how the majority of the rules are going to make it really tough. There has been no discussion with the north on the good stuff we do, and that's a disappointment, and I share that with you.
That's where the costs are going up. For housing under the new rules, we won't allow crews to have two in a room. They'll need to have one in a room. That means we'll have to double our housing space, and it takes four to five years to build housing quarters.
These aren't little things. These are big money issues.