I take the point. It does benefit air travellers more than non-air travellers, though. I think you would accept that.
I want to shift to this question around smaller rural markets. You know that this is a real preoccupation of mine, because my constituents are paying exorbitant costs to fly with Air Canada for short distances between communities like Smithers, Prince Rupert and Vancouver.
In the one market in northwest B.C. where we see competition from WestJet, the flights are consistently cheaper. We talked to Air Canada several years ago about this situation. The message we received was, “Don't worry. WestJet's pricing is artificially low. Eventually things will stabilize and we'll see equity between those markets.” We haven't seen that. People are having to drive over two hours in order to access affordable flights.
Why is there such a huge discrepancy between those markets?