Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to all of our witnesses. This has been a really interesting study, and I can't wait until we get to the report and the recommendations.
I want to thank Mayor Pond for joining us and bringing another northwest B.C. perspective to the committee. I think that with your airline background as well, it's going to be a great contribution to the committee's work.
Mayor Pond, you talked a little bit about the deregulation of the airport sector and the airline sector, and the devolution of airports to municipalities in the 1990s. I wonder if, in your view, that has been a good deal for small municipalities like Prince Rupert or whether, in hindsight, the costs of that approach have outweighed the benefits.