Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I don't believe I received an answer to the question. It seemed to me fairly clear that if there are extraordinary circumstances, deemed to be extraordinary by the airline, they will be exempt from paying compensation for cancelled or denied boarding. There are huge loopholes here for the airlines. I don't know how much further we could possibly go.
In terms of your other comment about how much it will cost the airlines, let me tell you that we have tried to find out. We've tried to find out from Air Canada, and we can't find out how much they pay in Europe. They've been paying in Europe since 1991 for denied boarding, and then five years ago the European legislation was expanded to include cancelled flights and chartered flights and the compensation was doubled. I'm not aware of any reduction in service or any withdrawal of service by Air Canada from the European market.
When we ask them repeatedly how much they've actually been paying on a monthly or yearly basis for compensation since 1991—those figures must be available—they won't tell us. Why would that be?