Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, of course, to our witnesses for your return to this committee for questions.
I must concede I'm not as familiar with this issue as most. It's not necessarily an issue that's been raised in our communities, so I'm trying to understand some of the debate and the concern around the table in terms of the line of questioning.
It seems me, and you can correct me if I'm wrong, or other members may correct me in their turn if I've understood this wrong, that most of the complaints I'm hearing seem to be with the delegation of noise abatement management to the local airport authorities, which presumably includes this consultation process that they don't think is exactly right.
How long has that been the policy in this country, by the way? When was that established? Let's start with that.