Thank you, Mr. Chair.
There seems to be a consensus among the witnesses regarding the burden of the taxes and government fees added to the price of airline tickets. That brings something to mind.
The model we are talking about is a user-pay model, where the passenger pays the real cost of travelling that way. If we used other models such as by subsidizing air travel, we would end up funding the trips people take for pleasure, whether to lie on the beach or visit the Eiffel Tower or the tower of Pisa.
That means that the trips taken by people who are privileged enough to be able to afford to travel would be subsidized by the entire population.
Mr. Roy, do you think that is a desirable model?
Are there ways of reducing those fees without going in that direction?