Thank you, Mr. Chair, and to the researcher.
If what we are saying is the way that it has been described, we'd have to make a friendly amendment. The motion says “they will ask minors whether they have a letter or other document”. I think a friendly amendment would say, “minors who are travelling alone”.
I recall when I had a minor living in England who used to come to Canada unaccompanied. And I remember at the time there was quite a little bit of a rigmarole to get that status, but it might not have been as tight or as thorough as it needs to be. You had to convince the airline that this person had the authority to travel.
But with that amendment, I would be more prone to support it, although it does raise the issue that Mr. MacKenzie raised, that if you put something on it for air travel, that deals with people flying to Europe or the Caribbean or Asia or wherever, but it doesn't deal with people who ship their kids to the United States and so on.