Thank you, Madam Chair.
I thank our guests for being with us.
My questions are addressed to Mr. Bergamini, but I want the other witnesses to feel very comfortable answering them as well.
First, let me give you my first impression so that you may corroborate it or tell me if I am mistaken. This will help me with my thinking on the matter.
My sense is that with this proposal, we are solving a false problem. As you said several times in your opening remarks, the basic problem relates to the funding of CATSA. That organization does not enjoy stable, predictable and sufficient funding. According to what I understood, the problem is not related to the quality of the services being provided but to their quantity, because the funding is insufficient.
CATSA comes to see us every year and asks for its funding to be increased, while the government is accumulating profits in the Treasury. Does the structure really need to be completely changed? Is the problem not rather the absence of predictable, recurrent long-term funding to meet the needs?
I have a related question. You conduct activities in international airports. Do our security screening services compare advantageously to those of other countries or are they so ineffective that we need to change the structure?