I want to say that it's a real honour to have Mr. Tassé before our committee.
As the Canadian Bar representative, I had the great privilege of working with Mr. Tassé in 1988, when we presented to the Mulroney commission on ethics--the Holtmann commission on lobbying. It is really a great privilege to have you here.
Mr. Tassé, since you've been involved with this for some period of time now, would you comment on why no compensation was paid to the only air carrier at the facility at the time the contract was cancelled, and why compensation was paid to another party when all they had was a business plan? I'm specifically talking about the harm that Air Canada might have received. Wouldn't it be logical that some compensation would be due and owed them because they were an operating airline at the time? I noticed that Deluce and Porter received some financial incentives.
I wonder if you would comment on that.