Part of what you are saying is true. We have to look at how we can best intervene. Transport Canada is the one who should have been coordinating that, but inevitably, when you delegate various responsibilities to independent agencies, each one ends up with their own responsibilities. You, the airport authorities, are responsible for a part of security. The Canadian Air Transport Security Authority also shares that responsibility.
When we tell that to Israeli officials, they think it's funny, they split their sides laughing because they are the only organization controlling everything in their airport whereas we have four or five organizations that are each responsible for their small part of security, which means that we end up with long line-ups.
My second question is for Ms. Desrosiers. Inevitably, when you are considering how to ensure security, the best way to do that is through profiling. That is what has come out of the testimony we have heard. Earlier on I was reading over Ms. Lynch's testimony from when she appeared before the committee. She is not against behavioural profiling. Behavioural profiling is what Israel uses. We have been told that the only way to find terrorists transporting explosives is not with a scanner but rather with dogs. They are the ones who do that work best in the whole world. That means that there have to be, in the airport, dog handlers with their dogs who are able to figure out who is carrying explosives. The Israelis tell us they don't want scanners because they don't believe in them. So we have two different worlds. We use body scanners whereas they don't believe in them.
We have to try to strike a balance and ensure that all players are around the same table to figure out who is responsible. CATSA tells us they are not responsible. You are telling us that CATSA has not done its work properly. In the end will never know who is responsible for what. In my opinion the problem is that we are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on CATSA to be responsible for a part of security and they are the ones mainly who are responsible for wait times, which is harming our industry. If there is another alert that involves a five-hour wait you are going to lose clients who will go elsewhere.
Mr. Boivin, our problem in Montreal is that they go to the United States to take the plane in Plattsburgh.