It's very lovely to see you, MP Romanado. Thank you very much for the kind, warm welcome.
I'd also like to take a moment to thank my shadow minister for jobs and industry, the MP for Carleton, or as I like to say, the shadow minister for “are we going to be okay”.
I'd also like to take a moment to recognize my colleague, Nate Erskine-Smith. I am looking forward to being on the panel with him tomorrow evening with the Runnymede Society.
Nate, I'm going to warn you, I'll be eating meat tomorrow, so the brain is going to be turned on. Watch out for that.
It's certainly good to be here.
Here we are, one year later after the pandemic has begun. Unfortunately, as I have talked about repeatedly both in the House and at transport committee, there is no plan for the air sector. It's unbelievable that we're here a year later and there is still nothing, despite repetitive calls from the industry on all fronts to have a plan. As I've said over and over again within the House and committee, the industry has invested significantly in the effort to maintain their industry and prevent its demise through their implementation of pilots, rapid testing, testing on arrival and testing on departure, but here we are.
Mr. Gibbons, I wish you could go into when we could expect this plan. I tell you, I've been let down so many times. In Reuters in December, and the Globe and Mail two weeks ago.... I am waiting and waiting and the word I keep hearing is “imminent”.
Is there anything you can say at all in terms of when we could possibly see this plan?