Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Welcome, Mr. Cannon. We appreciate you and your colleagues being here.
I have a series of quick questions on a variety of different issues; you're a minister who covers a lot of waterfront.
I want to ask you first about the Transport Canada open skies agreements. I understand that these agreements that you're negotiating, or are commencing to negotiate, with some of the Middle Eastern countries are following similar agreements that you've reached with the United States and Ireland. And while I think that's positive, I'm interested in hearing about the progress of the negotiations with the European Union and Mexico, countries that make up the vast majority of destinations for Canadian travellers. In January the EU in particular expressed interest in completing such a deal with Canada.
Can you provide the committee with an update on the status of negotiations with the European Union and Mexico? And if you can't do that today, could you get someone to provide that information to the committee?