Thank you, colleagues, for allowing me to sit in on the finance committee.
Shifting our discussion a little bit to the topic of air passenger rights, I want to start by thanking Dr. Lukács for his tireless work on behalf of Canadian air passengers. He does this as a volunteer, and over the past several years has emerged as Canada's foremost consumer advocate in the air passenger space. I think a lot of the advancements that we've seen are due to his work. I'm very pleased that he's joined us today to talk about the portion of Bill C-47 dedicated to this government's attempt to finally fix Canada's air passenger protection regime.
Dr. Lukács, you and I worked closely on developing Bill C-327, the Strengthening Air Passenger Protection Act. I wonder if you could comment a little on the contrast between what is in that private member's legislation and what we see in Bill C-47 today.