Small carriers that serve communities, small or large, all year round are not exempted from the requirements for the 120-day service. What we are proposing is for those carriers that provide a seasonal service to a community of any size. It could be a community of 10,000, it could be a community of 20,000, or it could be a community of 50,000. All of these, I think we would say, are small communities for whom the business, whether it's cyclical or temporary, is a very important economic contributor.
Having said that, we've said that because of the particular requirements of the seasonal operation industry, which is cyclical, and because of the fact that under the way in which the legislation is drafted at the present time, seasonal operators have to seek an exemption from the agency in order to terminate their licences, that introduces a certain inefficiency. It's something they would do anyway. It's something they do because the service they provide is a seasonal service. It is not a year-round service. That's the reason why they're seeking the exemption.
For services that are year-round to small communities, the advance notice will continue to be there. I think this measure, by carving out the seasonal element, does in fact take a very unbiased approach to all of the small communities that benefit from seasonal activity, not just the very few under a certain population threshold that might benefit from seasonal activity. This is a more generic and broader-based benefit, in my view.