Thank you, Mr. Chair, for giving me an opportunity to speak.
Mr. Chair, as Mr. Jean mentioned, either we shut down the airports or we study noise. I don't think that's an issue. The issue is if Mr. Jean was recently in my part of the world, if he would have gone and listened to the people in Richmond, Surrey, Delta, and those local municipalities, he would change his view. The “my way or the highway” approach will not work because we have to incorporate the public input into what we are doing here as their elected representatives when it comes to quality of life. He raised this. The quality of life we are going to study is associated with the noise factors that we have. In fact, we are not going beyond the impacts of the airline noises, of the airport noises. That is exactly where I want to go.
I can tell you that it's quite a major issue, particularly for the municipalities that are abutting the airports. I don't think we should shut down this study. Whether we have it now or whether we have it when we come back in January, we don't have to rush to necessarily finish this by December 15. We are busy with some other things. I would love to see this done when we come back in January.
My other colleagues probably will have the same view.