Evidence of meeting #10 for Official Languages in the 44th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was air.
A recording is available from Parliament.
5:30 p.m.
Liberal
Patricia Lattanzio Liberal Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel, QC
You mentioned flight routes. What happens if a route changes?
5:30 p.m.
Vice President, Government and Community Relations, Air Canada
We measure demand for new flight routes. It's an exercise for airline companies. That's a very good question, because it's dynamic. Air Canada has much more than a single office in one region of Canada. Owing to the nature of its activities, its presence is global. Every time we offer a new route, we measure demand.
However, some flight routes are automatically identified in the act. This means every flight leaving from Montreal, all flights within Quebec, New Brunswick and Ontario, or between these three provinces, and all flights departing from Moncton and Ottawa, if my memory serves me correctly.
We can send the committee the list of automatically designated flight routes, the method for calculating significant demand for routes, not only for in-flight services, but also in airports.
It would be helpful if the committee were to implement these requirements for identifying francophone regions and to make them applicable to other air carriers.
5:30 p.m.
Liberal
Patricia Lattanzio Liberal Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel, QC
The 2022 fiscal year is nearly over, and the 2023 year, at the end of which Air Canada's linguistic action plan will expire, is approaching.
According to you, will other improvements, additions or changes be added in the next plan?
5:30 p.m.
Vice President, Government and Community Relations, Air Canada
That's a very good question. We will be preparing a report on our efforts. We will look at the results for recruitment and training. We will consult our employees as we establish the next objectives.
Air Canada is going through a recovery period, which provides opportunities to review how we do things. We are determined to improve this aspect of our activities.
5:30 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal René Arseneault
Thank you, Ms. Lattanzio.
Mr. Rousseau, Mr. Rheault and Mr. Barbeau, thank you for having come before the committee today.
You agreed to send us a number of documents in connection with certain questions. If you think that other relevant information could be sent to us in writing, please do not hesitate to do so. Any documents that you might send will be received as evidence, even though it is subsequent to this meeting. So don't hesitate to do so.
Thanks to my colleagues. It was a good meeting.
The meeting is adjourned.