Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I would like to thank the Nav Canada officials, along with Transport Canada.
Contrary to what was said in the past hour, the noise is not only from the takeoffs or landings, the way we see it in Surrey, particularly the residents of South Surrey, Fleetwood—Port Kells, and Surrey North. Even though it's not an issue in my riding, I'm the only MP who was approached by the local people, and I'm certain they have talked to Nav Canada as well.
In fact, the changes in the past have created a lot more problems, a lot more noise, and residents have had to move out of the area, because the quiet communities became noisy when those noise paths were put in place.
My question to you is why was there no public consultation? You say there is now a public consultation process in place. Why was this process not in place before? You said you met with residents, but the residents still feel and say you have done basically nothing to reduce those noise levels.