Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to all our witnesses for being here and for your very important testimony this morning.
I want to continue with the long delays at the airports. I want to share a personal story and I want to correct some of the comments that were made earlier when my colleague Mr. Jeneroux was quoting our minister. This has received a lot of media attention, and I think it merits correcting.
I think what our minister was trying to get at is that it's not only one issue causing lineups at the airports. To his comments that the delays due to rusty travellers, passengers.... I can attest that, having been a witness. I was travelling from Quebec City to Ottawa two weekends ago, and I noticed quite a few times that a CATSA representative came to the front and reminded all of us to please remember to remove the liquids from our bags if we were bringing them on board and to remove electronic devices, because all of this delays the process.
I think that was the point our minister was trying to make with his comments. Certainly, he was not trying to place the blame on the passengers.
With that in mind, I was wondering if Ms. Pasher, Mr. Guy and Mr. Norejko would offer some comments. Is Canada the only part of the world seeing long delays at the airports? What are we seeing in other jurisdictions currently?