Thank you, Mr. Chair.
First of all, thank you to all of the witnesses for being here today. I took some quotes as I was listening intently.
We're all in a very tough state here. The airline industry is in a very tough position. I have mentioned many times that my riding of Barrie—Springwater—Oro-Medonte is sometimes referred to as “Terminal 4”, because I have so many employees in my area from Pearson airport who travel up and down Highway 400. I'm hearing about this daily.
Some of the comments I heard today were quite shocking. I will repeat a couple of them.
Mr. Lesosky, your exact quote was that “government needs to work with us, not against us”.
Mr. Perry, your quote was that there was no “proper consultation” on safety by the government.
Mr. Rauenbusch said that the “crisis” has been “made worse by” the government.
Obviously, the pandemic is bad enough in itself, so perhaps we can start with Mr. Lesosky, and he can expand on what he means by saying that the “government needs to work with us, not against us”, as a good starting point.