I would like to answer that.
On a number of occasions, since the minute the Liberal government was elected, we have sent letters and started trying to communicate with Minister Garneau, and we also sent 90 letters to different MPs explaining to them that it was important for us to meet with them because we saw this coming. We told them that legislation would be pushed through, that they would try to change this act, and that they would try to give this leeway to Air Canada.
So we started a long time ago doing this lobbying, trying to make the government understand that these jobs were important to us. Not only did we do that, but on the occasion of the certification of the Bombardier C Series airplane, since we also represent the members at Bombardier, when he was there to give the certification to the airplane, we tried to get in contact with him. I was able to have a few minutes with him and I asked him to have future discussions concerning this, and he said there wasn't an issue and that I would be able to. He never got back to us on it.
I'm also vice-president of the Quebec Federation of Labour, and on a number of occasions the Quebec Federation of Labour has asked to meet with Minister Garneau. He has been unable to every time. A week ago we got a meeting with his chief of staff, but we were never able to have a real discussion with Minister Garneau.