Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
When Air Canada asked for financial assistance to provide training when it purchased Canadian Airlines International Limited, that was not because it planned to train new employees but because it found a great many unilingual employees among its staff after the merger. Air Canada told the government that it would help private-sector companies do the training, that the Official Languages Act obliged it to provide bilingual services, and that it should therefore receive assistance to help its staff learn the other official language.
I must say that the Standing Committee on Official Languages and the Senate unanimously supported the company in this. Both the committee and the Senate support Air Canada.
With respect to complaints—if we had gone before the Supreme Court, we might have won—a judge decided that the official languages issue could be set aside, that the company had the right to breach Canadian law because Air Canada was in the process of restructuring, and had permission to ignore the Official Languages Commissioner. Is that correct, or not?