Thank you.
My argument in favour is very simple.
Bill C-49 contains a proposal that is not really a proposal, in my opinion. It is actually a solution designed to save time. What for? We could spend a lot of time discussing that.
As for the air passenger bill of rights, Canada does not have to reinvent the wheel because bills of rights of that kind already exist. Many witnesses spoke very positively about the European bill of rights, for example.
The purpose of most of the proposals in this amendment is to include in the bill the main rights that passengers could rely on in case of a problem. The NDP is not actually insensitive to the Liberal approach, under which all that work would be done by regulation, because, when conditions change, it is easier to amend a regulation than an act. We are also sensitive to certain of the details, like the amount of fines.
However, in terms of rights, it seems to me that the problems have been known for a long time, and it is possible to enact the equivalent of the proposals in the European bill of rights, for example. That is actually what the text of the amendment proposes. It is a concrete proposal that I invite my colleagues to consider and take a position on.