As I mentioned just now, in Canada, we are in a situation with one major player with major market shares, I might even call them market strongholds, that may be considerably supported by the proposals in the bill, were the Minister of Transport to agree to immunize that player against the enforcement of the Competition Act. As a result, we would end up with a dominant player that could potentially exercise undue influence on the prices in the market, not at all what a competitive market is supposed to be. Transat is interested in a competitive market. Transat competes with the company we are talking about, Air Canada and its partners in joint ventures.
You may say that it is in my interest to be negative about what those companies want to do, and about the expansion of the network, but that is not the case at all. We are interested in doing what we have been doing for 30 years, that is, to provide consumers with a service at an attractive price and a choice of travel destinations. For us to do so, the market has to be structured to be competitive.
This is a process of giving a player who is already dominant the ability to strengthen that dominance and therefore to shut out competitors like Transat and prevent them from offering consumers better prices and better choices. That is a goal that everyone wants to reach. But what is happening here is a threat to that goal.