Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Congratulations on your re-election.
Mr. Minister, welcome to the committee. It's good to see you again. Thank you for coming to speak on Bill C-11.
Let me thank you as well for your generous comments in the House last week, where you admitted that most of the heavy lifting on Bill C-11 and in fact, for that matter, most of your government's transportation agenda was done by the previous government, by the department, and by transportation stakeholders who have been working on this for over a decade. I appreciate your largesse in that regard.
I'd like to ask you two specific questions, and I want to know how the bill deals with both questions, if I could.
The first has to do with the safety of our airports. You've heard about the incident in Montreal earlier this month; a journalist was able to penetrate six or seven times on the periphery of Trudeau airport. Without identification, he was able to gain access without being stopped. With all due respect, Minister, your comments on this matter have been vague. They have been inconclusive. Canadians are very worried about this. It was compounded today by media reports, Mr. Chairman, about members of criminal organizations, including the Hell's Angels, intimidating security officers at our airports in order to operate--we take from the article--their flourishing drug trade.
How is this bill specifically going to deal with this question, in the first instance, of airport security?