Our position is as follows: if we are considered to be a federal institution, why can we not be considered as a fully-fledged federal institution? It was the Standing Joint Committee on Official Languages, not us, that came up with the idea. It recommended that we receive government support to help integrate Canadian Airlines employees.
If we are to be subject to obligations over and above rules to which other private carriers are subject, we have to be able to make funding requests in the same way that all other federal institutions subject to the Official Languages Act can.