We don't have toll booths on our highways. We all agree that highways are necessary pieces of infrastructure, and the funding for highways is generally provided out of the public coffers. Aviation is treated differently. The airport rents are probably the biggest example of where the government is expecting users to pay for that infrastructure.
I think there's no better case for publicly funded infrastructure than air travel in rural Canada. You've heard every witness here talk about the large geography and the small population and how air travel is a necessity. I think the infrastructure for air service should be treated in the same manner as our highway infrastructure. It's necessary and it should be publicly funded.
To the best of my knowledge, many other countries treat it that way, if not most other countries, so I think it's time for a change in the model. The notion of an ultra-low-cost carrier in Canada is a bit of an oxymoron, because we're not an ultra-low-cost environment, and I think those are steps that need to be taken. Make us a lower-cost environment and airfares can go down.