I am going to raise some of the issues that you've raised with respect to fuel, Mr. Barone and Mr. Cooper, and no, I won't get into gas or taxes.
If I understand it correctly, Mr. Cooper, you have a problem with the level of taxation on diesel, which I understand to be--the federal excise tax I think is 4¢; in my province it's 14.7¢, and obviously I don't want to point fingers here, but much of that 4¢ is remitted if you're a business, and the GST, of course, is every three months. Specifically, I guess, in terms of the price increase, particularly in winter months, it must be very difficult for your members.
This also brings Mr. Barone into the question as well. There seems to be little availability for jet fuel, particularly in western Canada, in our chair's region. New mixtures, new requirements, particularly environmental requirements, create an undue strain I think on both your industries.
Do you have any suggestions in that regard as to how we can help accommodate those changes? Obviously, we have a restriction in the amount of fuel that is made available, and what is made available is at a very high price over and above government impositions of taxations or added cost as a result of what you just mentioned.