Just to step back to one of your earlier questions about the cost of air travel in Canada, I think all of these extra taxes and fees and the airport rents are one of the reasons why it is more expensive to fly in Canada. Obviously there's the density of our population, but there are also our carriers that serve a lot of routes that aren't as profitable, including into the north, where some of their bigger haul routes actually can cross-subsidize and get into smaller communities the flights that may otherwise not make commercial sense for them. I expect that there is some cross-subsidization when it comes to making sure that Air Canada, WestJet, and other carriers are actually getting into smaller communities where there's maybe not a lot of potential to make money.
The user fee principle built into air travel makes sense, but again, only if those fees are used for what they're determined for. The problem with the air travellers security charge is that not all of that money is put back into CATSA screening. One of the things that Bill C-49 will do in allowing airports to contract out new services from CATSA is that inevitably those authorities will end up recouping those costs through their landing fees and other mechanisms, which are then built into ticket costs. That means consumers could end up double-paying for security fees. They're paying the air travellers security charge, and then they're going to be paying whatever fees end up getting built into tickets because of these additional costs that are being contracted out.
We think it's time for a review of all of the government-imposed costs. We're not saying to get rid of all of them. We're not saying that there shouldn't be a security charge. We're saying to make sure that we're accountable for how those fees are used and that they're invested in what they're supposed to be invested in. Also, then, there's looking to see if there are ways in which we can make the sector as a whole more competitive. Again, airport rents are an area where we impose very high costs, which then of course have to be recouped through the end users.