Evidence of meeting #44 for Transport, Infrastructure and Communities in the 40th Parliament, 3rd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was aveos.
A recording is available from Parliament.
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Senior Director, Engines and Airframe Maintenance, Air Canada
I'm not employed by Aveos, but I do know that they have some third-party contracts. I don't know what they are.
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Conservative
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Senior Director, Engines and Airframe Maintenance, Air Canada
I have no idea what they do in other parts of the world. I'm an employee in Montreal, so I see what they have in the hangar in Montreal. I know that the Department of National Defence often has aircraft there in the summer.
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Conservative
Brian Jean Conservative Fort McMurray—Athabasca, AB
So there are other users of their services here in Canada?
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Conservative
Brian Jean Conservative Fort McMurray—Athabasca, AB
And they provide a large variety of services--airframe, engine component, maintenance solutions for a lot of different sizes and types of aircraft?
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Senior Director, Engines and Airframe Maintenance, Air Canada
They are a private enterprise. I am not sure who else they provide services to.
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Conservative
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Assistant General Counsel, Law Branch, Air Canada
Not that I know of.
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Conservative
Brian Jean Conservative Fort McMurray—Athabasca, AB
Are there going to be any jobs lost to the El Salvador facility?
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Assistant General Counsel, Law Branch, Air Canada
As we said, Air Canada has no intention of giving work there.
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Conservative
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Conservative
Brian Jean Conservative Fort McMurray—Athabasca, AB
My question was, are there any jobs, Canadian jobs, that are going to be lost to the El Salvador facility through Air Canada?
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Assistant General Counsel, Law Branch, Air Canada
Through Air Canada, no.
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Conservative
Brian Jean Conservative Fort McMurray—Athabasca, AB
All right. I'm from Fort McMurray, and there are a lot of flights in a day in Fort McMurray, 16 in fact, and we produce a lot of oil that you burn at Air Canada. I'm just wondering if there's any chance of moving one of your maintenance facilities there.
Why are you laughing? Is that funny? I've lived there for 40 years, and the employment possibilities are dramatic, so is there any chance?
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Senior Director, Engines and Airframe Maintenance, Air Canada
Not likely.
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Conservative
Brian Jean Conservative Fort McMurray—Athabasca, AB
Okay. Is there a cost of compliance with ACPPA for Air Canada--financial costs?
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Brian Jean Conservative Fort McMurray—Athabasca, AB
I know Air Canada does a lot of studies on a lot of things, so I'd be surprised if you hadn't done a study on the cost of complying with ACPPA. Have you done a study like that?
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Director, Government Relations, Air Canada
We've never done a study of the totality. We can anecdotally tell you what some of the language requirements would cost us, implicit in ACPPA, as far as the maintenance of bases and what it would cost to relocate an aircraft to a given location, but we've never, as a totality, taken a look at the commercial disadvantage.
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Brian Jean Conservative Fort McMurray—Athabasca, AB
A fairly accurate estimate of what the cost would be on a yearly basis?