Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses for being with us today.
Mr. Gradek, I want to go back to some of the comments, echoing the question from my colleague Mr. Iacono.
When it comes to the chaos that travellers have been experiencing in Canada's major airports, you stated that it's the airlines' own doing, and then you highlighted the issue as being the tens of thousands of staff whom the airline industry had to lay off due to the industry's being forced to shut down during COVID. Many in the industry have stated that these layoffs were mostly due to little or no financial support by the government, strict COVID measures and long-lasting mandates.
Can you elaborate on how this chaos of the airlines is their own doing, and perhaps how they could have avoided the layoffs, given the hit the industry took?