Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. McKenna, you talked about a lot of things in your opening remarks. However, not much has been said at this committee, to date, about the impact of the labour shortage on regional transportation.
I hear through the grapevine, for example, that the fact that more pilots are needed than before has meant that the big airline companies have been getting their pilots from the smaller companies. When the smaller ones can't find others because of the shortage of trained pilots, they have to make choices and, in some cases, they have had to simply shut down the airlines, not because the airlines were not profitable, but because these small companies did not have enough personnel.
How can we solve this problem? Surely there is something that can be done so we have enough pilots for the airlines to be able to operate in future.