Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'll pick up where I left off. If you could give me those 20 seconds, boy, that would be generous.
Mr. Boudreau, you mentioned living wages. I was at YVR and talked to some of the screening officers there around the height of the challenges that we were seeing during the pandemic. What they told me is that being a screening officer at an airport used to be a great job. There's a lot of training and a lot of certification, but it was well paid and well respected. Through contracting out, the quality of those jobs has really gone downhill. Now they are paid a salary that is comparable to other jobs at the airport that don't require you to be in the public eye all the time and to be surveilled. They're having checked bags thrown at them, working short-handed, missing breaks and all of these things. I think you would appreciate that they were under some pretty stressful work conditions. I'd also note that they don't work for the airport directly.
Are we paying screening officers enough? Does the contracting out model threaten those living wages?
Given that Vancouver is one of the most expensive cities in Canada, what is a living wage for an airport worker these days?