Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Unlike some of my colleagues, I'm a big supporter of this program. I'm not sure it's going to be as quite as useful as the gun registry program, but I think it's probably ranking up there in terms of protecting Canadians.
The reality is that air carriers are using all sorts of lists. In the absence of our own list in Canada, they're using the U.S. no-fly list. On June 18 we'll have our own list. Frankly, the U.S. no-fly list was fraught with errors. We all know that. In my previous life on the other side, we helped people get off the lists. It didn't take six months. We had to go through the U.S. departments of transport and homeland security and we got a lot of people off the list. There'll be some of that on the Canadian list.
I have some other questions. First, are carriers coming into Canada or leaving from Canada obligated to use this Canadian passenger protect list? In other words, it's not an option, not a tool; it's a mandated requirement.