Thank you for coming today. We really appreciate it. I have anticipated this for some period of time. I'm quite excited, because you are a service expert in relation to airports, I understand, and you have some expertise in relation to queueing and efficiencies.
That's what I'd like to concentrate on: productivity and efficiency in our airports. I think that's very important, and I think most Canadians expect us to work on that, especially given some of the statistics we've received from other countries in relation to the throughput in other airports.
I'm going to concentrate a bit on Israel. I had an experience in Israel. I went to Israel with my mom and about 30 Jewish friends from a synagogue in Long Island. I was on a bus. I was coming up to the airport in Tel Aviv, and they stopped us. The military surrounded the bus and we got out. I was the first person. Everybody was about 60 years old or older, so I was the person who got out and did the talking.
I got out and they asked me a few questions. They asked what I did for a living, and I told them that I was a member of Parliament from Canada. Well, they were just pulling out the first suitcase, and when they found that out and got my business card and saw my ID, they put everything back in and said, “Have a nice day”.