Thank you, Madam Chair.
Welcome to all members and our witnesses. I would like my first question to be addressed to the Air Canada pilots group, either Mr. Strachan or Mr. Petrie, as you wish.
You came to see me the other day, and in our discussions and what you presented here today you mentioned several times that the pyramid scheme--excuse me for calling it that, but it's not negative, it's just a way of describing it--they go through was important to the Air Canada pilots. The system is organized in such a way that the apex is in the last five years of the career of that air pilot.
But this isn't the only kind of pension scheme airlines have. I understand that other airlines have different types of pension schemes. WestJet, for example, and Air Canada Jazz have different kinds of compensation schemes.
If you were to change over to a compensation scheme like that of WestJet or Air Canada Jazz, how long would it take? Would you still be against mandatory retirement if you'd had one of those two schemes originally?