But there have been a number of aircraft incidents in the past where merely accepting an airline's statement that this is what they were going to do resulted in a crash. There was a lack of inspectors, in fact, in a number of incidents in the past that caused.... For example, the Alaska Airlines 261 crash was blamed on the fact that the Federal Aviation Administration in the U.S. had budget cuts and didn't have as many inspectors as they should have had. They trusted the airlines when the airlines said they were doing things. It turns out they weren't.
Canadians are concerned that when the maintenance of a fleet as big as Air Canada disappears to some other shore, we won't be as safe, we will not be in a position to ensure ourselves or to trust that this is going to be maintained to the same wonderful standard that was maintained first by Air Canada, which has a tremendous record, and then by Aveos for the last year or so that Aveos has been in charge. Now it's gone offshore, and Canadians are worried.