Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I'm pleased to be here before you this morning to personally ask you some questions and also to hear some criticisms that are reported to me when I'm absent.
First, thanks to the three of you for being here today. It's strange but when we receive representatives from Air Canada, we often hear the same rhetoric, that it is a private company that shouldn't be treated differently from its competitors in the same field in the world. However, one thing should nevertheless not be forgotten: someone somewhere decided at some point that a merger between the two companies was desirable. There were rules and conditions that had to be met, that were required by the Government of Canada at that time—