Thank you, sir.
My answer will be quite practical.
Just now, we said that when joint ventures work together to share routes and establish prices, it's a de facto merger. According to the Competition Act and the Canada Transportation Act, it is currently a merger. The current legislation has a process on mergers.
We have attached to our brief an opinion from a former commissioner of the Competition Bureau, Konrad von Finckenstein, who is very well known and respected. He took the time to analyze the proposed provisions on mergers. If joint ventures were subject to those provisions, the concerns would be addressed. The process would then be transparent. Rationales could be submitted and a report could be prepared. So everyone would be able to comment. It would allow companies like ours, or anyone else, such as consumers, to have their say so that any negative consequences for them could be determined.
That is the aspect we are trying to highlight. We are asking you to make some amendments, which basically already appear in existing legislation.