Let's come back to the Air Canada situation that our colleague Mr. Nadeau addressed earlier. As regards the Official Languages Act, I really would like to know what the problem is. It's as though, from the moment it's about official languages, that doesn't count. An act is an act, it seems to me. We are legislators. I was previously a union representative, and I negotiated collective agreements as part of my duties. I was never able to negotiate one that was against the law. That's quite clear.
And yet Air Canada has been able to hide behind the fact that the union forced it to take on those employees. I won't even tell you the word that comes to my mind because it wouldn't be very pretty. The Official Languages Act is clear. The public has a right to be served in both official languages, and Air Canada is subject to the act. Not only is Air Canada against us, but when its representatives appeared in court concerning the bankruptcy, the judge said he did not want to see the Commissioner of Official Languages interfering in the case.
Isn't it enough that the act is clear? Isn't this situation alarming? Even the judges don't want to enforce the act and push away those who want to do so. You can consult that case. The judge said he wanted the Commissioner of Official Languages to stay out of it while the potential bankruptcy of Air Canada was under review. That's incredible: this language matter alone could have brought Air Canada down.