My reply will deal with the decisions about the whole matter of Aveos. The deputy minister will set the record straight on the safety issue. Some of those things were actually not correct.
In this country, no government—certainly not ours—will allow safety in any area of transportation to be compromised. You are making statements that have not been confirmed. Yesterday we were taken to task for sending everything somewhere else in the country; now, you are saying that we are sending it overseas.
Since 1988, Air Canada has been a private company that makes its own business decisions. I do not always agree with Air Canada on those decisions, but that is how things are. It has been a private company since 1988 and, in 2004, it separated its operations and its other activities to create new companies. Since then, Aveos—the name was chosen in 2008, as you know—has also been an independent company, with independent union accreditations. Air Canada will have to accept the incorporating act, and we are going to make sure that it does.
As for the other comments about safety, stop scaring Canadians. Companies all over Canada provide very good services. No one has any doubt that Aveos employees provided a very good service. But their owners, the private individuals who own the company, have decided to suspend Aveos' operations. The government did not make that decision; business people made business decisions. So the employees working for those individuals have lost their jobs, and that is very unfortunate. Air Canada is a client of Aveos; it was not an Air Canada decision either. I am sure you will tell me that there are all kinds of issues involved with this, but those are the facts. In the government, as you know, we do not work with assumptions; we work with the legislation and with the facts.
I will ask the deputy minister to provide you with specific information on the matter you raised.