Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Greetings to the witnesses and thank you for being here.
My question is for Ms. Benoît from Aéro Montréal.
Thank you for your presentation, which was instructive, and even salutary, because there is this permanent confusion between air transportation and the aerospace industry. We don't know why, but that's the way it is. You're right to remind us of that because it's an essential industry. It used to be said that the aerospace industry was to Quebec what the automobile industry is to Ontario. As you said, Ottawa received assistance, and Quebec should as well.
I'd like to hear what you have to say about aerospace policy. There are several aspects to it, but what's the first action that should be taken? You mentioned defence and the fact that we could offer purchasers money or loans? We could have a climate change policy, as France has done by making its assistance to Airbus conditional on the greening of its fleet.
It would be extremely lucrative in our case because we have the A220s. We could have a maintenance policy and a recycling policy. Some of the aircraft have been sent to an aircraft cemetery in Arizona, whereas we have a specialized business in that field in Mirabel.
So there are many things we could do, but where should we start?