Thanks, Mr. Chairman.
I think there is a telescope on the table, Monsieur Duchesneau, and I think it's pointing to one thing called “cargo”. I've had four conversations with presidents and CEOs of airport authorities, not Mr. Cherry, but others who have said that this is their nightmare scenario.
If we don't want to take the good advice or the findings of a journalist doing his job, Mr. Cherry, then we can perhaps listen to Senator Pat Carney quoting her son, a Boeing 747 pilot, who said: “It's all a farce. It makes me angry. This zip-lock bag obsession just detracts attention from all the real security measures that are not being implemented at our airports.”
I didn't say that. No journalist said that. A Boeing 747 pilot said it. It was quoted yesterday in the National Post, in an open letter to our public safety minister.
So I want to go back to a couple of things. To recap, Mr. Duncan, I take it, then, that in your negotiations with Garda there were no consequences, pecuniary or otherwise, for their failure, which was revealed by the Journal de Montréal articles this summer. Is that correct? They have a new contract that's performance based--you told me about a number of things--but there were no pecuniary or other consequences accruing to Garda as a result of their failure. Did I get that right?