I also am worried, Mr. Chair, if I can be so blunt. I'm worried, as a person from northern Alberta where there's a huge number of small communities, about the 100 or so airlines in Canada setting up a seasonal service to deliver in the first place, if they know they have to go through this consultation process. At the end, if they want to withdraw, it's not financially beneficial to them.
I'm concerned about it from the other direction. Why would they set it up in the first place if they're not going to be able to discontinue it if it's financially not viable for them? The market certainly prevails in these areas. I would suggest that if it's financially beneficial to them, they should continue with service. If it's not, then I think it just adds a lot of cumbersome accounting and would set up an atmosphere where they wouldn't want to set up the service in the first place if there were any question at all.
I'd like to hear from the department as to what they think.