Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you to our witnesses here today.
I will start with Unifor.
With regard to the De Havilland and the Bombardier projects in the greater Toronto area, this trained and value-added manufacturing workforce, once dissipated, will be hard to bring back. What plans have been laid out to either have some domestic procurement or have some type of production?
One thing that most concerns Canadians is the question of if we provide supports, what we get in return. Some companies have taken money, some of which has gone offshore. Some of it has gone to bonuses and executive salaries and hasn't been put toward working or procurement products that keep Canadians working.
If we keep them working, then they're off employment insurance and CERB and other things. Perhaps Unifor can provide some of the solutions that they are projecting to do the recovery, especially since, as has been noted, the Dash 8 is a regional carrier. It was a political decision to keep regional airlines connected, and perhaps modern air fleets could actually be part of the solution to keep both things going.