Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank all the presenters who are here today. This report we could look at for a long period of time. We could also break it apart, when we talk about urban and rural airports and the challenges that each faces.
In my prior life, I was fortunate enough to sit on a board of directors in the municipal world for one of the regional airports there. There were two things that came out of it that I learned from.
One was how important that airport really was in the grand scheme of things—which I really wouldn't have looked at without being on that board—for local businesses, people going to different places and how important it was. It was Lake Simcoe Regional Airport, which got purchased by the county.
The other thing I realized was how hard it was to find funding to keep that airport going. In fact, the big day of the year was usually when we had Base Borden and we had the air show. The price on the fuel and how much fuel we sold was considered a windfall. It just shows you how important it is to get those dollars that are out there. As I said, it's so hard, even for the restaurants that are there. They have restaurants that are renting spots for food at all the airports that we have there.
Just the increased cost of inflation and even the carbon tax, for instance, that's going to be placed on this fuel.... What is it going to mean for a lot of these airports—all airports certainly, but a lot of these small ones? There's another one that I have, for instance, that has flying schools that go out of it so we have future pilots.
What is it going to mean? Is that something that you're hearing concern about?