The Air Canada-Air Transat transaction was a different type of transaction from a normal merger review. Under the Canada Transportation Act, the Minister of Transport can determine if a merger involving a transportation undertaking is worthy of a public interest review. If the minister makes that determination, then the bureau's role is different. Our role at that point in time is to provide advice to the minister on whether there are potential competition concerns with respect to the transaction. The minister takes our advice into the mix of public interest issues that he or she is considering and makes a recommendation to cabinet. Cabinet makes the decision. That is one of the rare instances where the bureau doesn't have independent decision-making with respect to a merger.
In that particular case, you're correct: I provided a letter to the Minister of Transport at the time indicating that the bureau's review suggested there would be a substantial lessening of competition as a result of that transaction with respect to 83 different routes—that is, origin-destination pair routes between Canada and Europe and Canada and southern vacation destinations. Subsequent to that, the minister then seeks advice from the bureau, from me, with respect to any remedies. We provided that advice.
So it's a different situation, Mr. Lemire.