It's not difficult to monitor. Plattsburgh is an hour and a quarter from Montreal. I went down to do a PBS interview last week. The sign at Plattsburgh says, “Montreal's U.S. Airport”. They're not subtle about it. PBS is interested in Montreal, because there are four million people, a million of them anglophones, versus upstate New York. They know where the market is.
At one level, it's not as fast for Canadians to go to Plattsburgh, but if you live on the south shore of Montreal, it's almost as fast to go to Plattsburgh if you have Nexus than it is to go to Trudeau on a certain day. That's overstating it, but I see the same thing with my brother who lives in Abbotsford, who goes down to the U.S. to save money.
At one level, that's helping Canadians, so we like that. It's providing jobs in the U.S., not Canada, and the government is aware of that, but it has chosen a certain approach that helps a lot of Canadian families. I'm trying to remember geography class, but I would say that the majority of Canadians live within a short distance of the U.S. I can think of Montreal, and when I lived in Toronto, we'd go down to Buffalo. It's a little further. If you live in Hamilton or Niagara Falls, flying out of Buffalo is not difficult to do. I've done it. Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver, our biggest cities, all have....
Now, for Edmonton it's more of a challenge. I agree. It's a long drive. But it is something that a lot of Canadians benefit from. The government is aware of it. They've chosen that path. I can't entirely disagree that Canadians get a good bargain out of it.