Thanks, Mr. Chair.
I just want to take a minute to talk about Bill C-7, since it was brought up by a number of people here. Certainly the results of the last two years I think speak highly of the work we did on Bill C-7.
We've seen that the CBAA has been taken back by the government. That was one of the concerns we had with Bill C-7. As well, we now have an agreement that we should postpone the implementation of SMS for the small carriers. That was another big concern we had with it.
Our other concerns were tied to things like you say in here about operators' confidential safety information. We didn't like that, because incident reports under Bill C-7 would have been confidential, so that information on things that happened, say, with the diversion of an Air Canada flight down to Grand Forks, would have been confidential to many people.
As well, the liability of the chief executives of the companies was another issue that certainly was one of the reasons there was opposition to Bill C-7.
I just wanted to get those points on the record.
But as I say, the government should be quite happy with what we've done on Bill C-7, because of course now they've changed their policies in some respects in terms of some of the things that might have happened differently, had we not stood up on those issues.