Well, in fairness, the providing of personal information to a foreign government is always a concern, and the providing of additional personal information in different circumstances is of concern. So I think it's legitimate for this committee to examine this, in much the way you have been. Are the privacy concerns met? Have the purposes for this information been clearly established? Under what circumstances is it provided?
Those are legitimate questions for this committee to ask. We, as the government, in fact have raised all of these questions with the Americans, and we have come to the conclusion that we obtained the concessions that we could. Now the Americans are saying, come the end of this year, the final rule is going into effect; if you don't comply, your planes do not cross our airspace.
So that's a trade-off. And we can say as Canadians, well, we're going to travel around the United States to go to Mexico. Well, you can imagine what that would do to the cost of airline tickets, the cost to the economy, the cost to all kinds of things. So this is an issue we have to weigh off. It's not something we control. We've been diligent. We worked hard, but this is the ultimate position we've been placed in and that's why we brought this bill forward.