Thank you, Mr. Chair.
First, I just want to say that I do recognize that significant efforts have been made by Air Canada to encourage bilingualism and to provide bilingual services. I use Air Canada from London, Ontario to Ottawa, and I've been quite impressed with the bilingual service, despite there not being a large francophone population in southern Ontario. I do appreciate that.
My concerns rest, though, with Air Canada's seeming defensiveness when it comes to official bilingualism, as though it were a burden. It's been mentioned time and time again by them that this is somehow a burden that's not placed upon other airlines. I just want to go back to something that Mr. Généreux said at the beginning: is there not an acceptance that Air Canada is different from every other airline? Is there not an acceptance of that simple fact that, because of the unique nature of Air Canada, it does have this extra requirement?