Thank you, Mr. Dhaliwal.
Again, this is maybe not for today's discussion, but we would welcome the opportunity to come before this committee and discuss the cost structure of air flight in Canada, which is eroding our competitiveness. In fact, we are launching an economic white paper on that very subject.
To us, the route to increasing inbound tourism to Canada is actually through appropriate competition that can exist within the current routes that are provided for but simply aren't affordable.
Part of my job is to go around and ask foreign carriers if they're prepared to increase their flights to Canada in order to create better value for the inbound consumer. Aside from the Emirates issue, there are a lot of airlines who either have the capacity or could easily get the capacity who aren't coming to Canada, not because of an open skies issue but because of the cost structure in order to land a plane here. That's a bigger issue that we need to get around before we even begin to have a discussion.
These gentlemen have fair opinions, but I think a lot of this debate has been centred around open skies, and what we're looking for is a more competitive situation where we can actually benefit from the routes that already exist.