Unfortunately, the past four or five years have shown that the Canadian Transportation Agency is well positioned only to act in the airlines' private interests and does not serve the public interest. We have seen that recently during the pandemic in the refund versus voucher controversy. The agency lacks independence. It doesn't act in the public interest. It acts more as an excuse or as a cover for the government to avoid responsibility and say, “It wasn't us. It was them. It was the arm's-length body.” But that is actually a very stubby arm.
The Canadian Transportation Agency should not be entrusted with this. Furthermore, as it stands, there is nothing to legally prevent that agency from keeping the same requirement for a safety loophole, which has been causing such a tremendous amount of difficulties and a massive amount of backlog.