I also have three questions. I'm going to ask them all, and you can feel free to answer them.
I'm going to switch to downtown Toronto. We have an island airport. It's a regular source of complaints to my office. With the expansion that's going on these days, these complaints are getting louder and more frantic, to the point where some people are moving out of the Bathurst Quay neighbourhood. So really, what is Transport Canada proposing to address those legitimate complaints? What additional limits should be placed upon airports, such as the island airport, that operate in such close proximity to huge numbers of residential and recreational areas?
I also note that all airports are supposed to have noise abatement procedures as a term of their leases, but in this case, the downtown Toronto Island Airport has no such requirement as there is no lease. I note from other questions that there seems to be no effective community input into policy development for noise abatement regulations. So the question is, what measures will Transport Canada take to obtain effective input into noise abatement policies for neighbourhoods and communities affected, and not just from the airports or the airlines?
My last area of questioning follows from my colleague's question. I notice that the European Union, through the World Health Organization, has adopted a charter on transports. It includes targets to reduce noise. They have guidelines, they talk about decreasing the noise pollution, and they have nighttime sound levels in residential areas within WHO-recommended nighttime values. The European Union also published its noise directive in 2002 requiring member states to draw up noise maps, an action plan. It's just very extensive, whereas in Canada, the Transport Canada website hardly has anything. What kind of active role do you want to take to address airport noise, especially in big urban centres?