Thank you.
I would like to talk about WestJet. I was quite impressed. I don't travel very frequently with WestJet but when I did, I was very impressed with the service in both official languages. I'm rather surprised because this is a company that mainly serves Western Canada. They have understood the importance and commercial benefits of using both official languages.
I would like to talk about the issue of insufficient qualified labour in Western Canada. I don't think that's a good excuse. I come from Winnipeg, which has one of Air Canada's biggest bilingual call centres. You found qualified individuals in that region for that centre. At the same time, Air Canada has laid off staff over the past two or three years. Very competent bilingual francophones have been let go. Perhaps those were people with insufficient seniority but they were very competent. I'm surprised that you can let people go and yet, at the same time, you can't find other candidates.
Could you explain that to me? If you need qualified bilingual employees in Winnipeg, just contact me and I'll give a list tomorrow morning. You're not looking in the right places. There are highly qualified people in our region. I am sure that the same is true of Saskatchewan.