My understanding, and again these questions are best put I think to Air Canada and to Aveos, is that during the restructuring that occurred in the last decade with Air Canada, it went into bankruptcy protection and came out of that--I think we're all fairly proud of the fact--and now I think it's the 13th largest airline in the world, with 23,000 employees. It's a Canadian success story. As I mentioned earlier, I looked at one of their press releases recently, and they've hired another 500 people. It's a good story. We're happy for Air Canada, and we want it to continue to be a success.
But in the restructuring of Air Canada, what everyone agreed to on the creditors' side, including the unions, who voted in favour of it and participated in the restructuring, was that the maintenance would be spun off to Aveos and done by Aveos, and it has been done by them since. It's been done, as I understand it, very successfully. Both Aveos and Air Canada have hired additional personnel. It's been a successful relationship. And Air Canada says it will continue to comply with the legislation.
People are always concerned about jobs. We're all concerned about jobs, but we also have to understand there's a limit to how much a government can say about a publicly traded private company that competes with companies around the world and in Canada. The idea that we're going to pull one company out of a list and demand an additional new layer of requirements for this company, it seems to me, is going to be very difficult to sell in the public square.