Is it all right with the committee if I take my seven minutes from here? Christine will keep the time and let me know--with some flexibility.
I'm really glad we're having this session. I want to thank all of you for taking the time to present to us. I especially want to thank the Lung Association for actually starting this whole process, starting with letters to all of us and making us aware of the issues. Since you spoke out, the Canadian Medical Association has also joined this project of trying to get back to the days when at least one Canadian airline was pet-free.
I want to start with a question to any of you in terms of what happened this year. We in fact had an airline, Air Canada, that up until sometime in 2009 did not allow pets. They made that decision in 2006. I imagine they made that decision because they were made aware of problems in terms of allergies and problems for people with breathing problems.
Is that your understanding? Do any of you have a background in terms of Air Canada? Or could the CTC folks tell us anything in terms of what caused that reversal?
Did people complain that they had a human right to bring their pets on planes, and therefore the Canadian Transportation Agency looked at the evidence and decided that their human rights were more important than people with allergies? Or was that just Air Canada's decision?