Under the Canada Transportation Act the Minister of Transport has to designate a Canadian carrier to operate internationally under a specific agreement. The first step the carrier has to take is to come to us and request it be designated to operate, let's say, under the Canada-China air agreement. Once it has this, it can start to operate, to use the rights that are available under the agreement.
The agreements that we negotiate put in place a legal framework. That's as far as our work goes. After that, it's up to the carriers to decide what they want to do with those rights. That's why we say the decision on launching air services depends on commercial considerations on the part of the carriers. It's not the government that will tell a carrier to fly between point A and point B.