Thank you.
Welcome to the witnesses.
I'd like to discuss two topics today.
First, I'd like to talk about the ratio of flight attendants to passengers. I have here a press release the Canadian Union of Public Employees issued yesterday. It contains a letter from National President Paul Moist to the minister calling for a study.
I am going to quote a part of that letter:
We continue to take the position, historically upheld by the House of Commons Standing Committee on Transport, that any changes to flight attendant ratios must be subject to highest level of oversight and should not occur without a parliamentary study.
I agree with him.
A single day of public consultation was held on May 22; that's it. I want to know what possible objections anyone could have to the committee's doing this study. A single day of consultation isn't the same as a parliamentary study done by the Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Communities. What they are calling for is a real study—