If you go back to your question about the impacts on passenger numbers, passenger confidence and passenger confusion contributes to lower passenger numbers. That is not to say it is not important for all Canadians to respect our efforts to battle COVID. We believe they should. We believe in a clear consistent approach to a testing framework, which we have called for, for many months now, together with the air carriers and others in the industry. We have been asking for a clear approach to testing frameworks for the better part of eight or nine months. That will provide passengers more confidence, a better understanding of how and when they can travel safely, and it will eventually allow for a reopening of safe travel. It has to be part of the go forward strategy.
These are not measures that airports decide upon. However, we do partner and lead in research. We led the way on research on aviation and the impacts of air travel in relation to the transmission of COVID. We partnered on that with McMaster HealthLabs. We have partnered with the Province of Ontario on the arrivals testing pilot program. We are about to launch a voluntary departures testing program with the National Research Council, for both passengers as well as airport workers.
Airports and air carriers, particularly airports, are doing everything they can to help lead the way toward a clear approach to testing, both on departures and arrivals, and we want to partner with government at the federal level to establish a clear framework going forward.