Thank you, Chair.
I want to thank colleagues for letting me join you here today. I'm not a regular member of this committee, but given the mess that was holiday travel and the impact it had on my constituents in Oakville North-Burlington, I felt it was really important to be here and get some answers for them. Many of them hadn't travelled since before the pandemic and they were excited. Then, as we all know, it was an absolute mess.
I acknowledge that, and my Bloc colleague said the same thing, you can't control the weather but you can control the plans you have to deal with it, as well as how you communicate with your customers. Both of those were sorely lacking over the holiday travel season.
I want to start with Sunwing. You've acknowledged that you were trying to get 63 foreign pilots and you were unsuccessful. Then you said that you had resiliency built into the system. With all due respect, sir, I would challenge that. You didn't have resiliency in the system and you were selling Canadians travel when you did not have the capacity to deal with it if there were any problems. Bad weather is not unique to our Canadian winters.
Did you have a warning from the Government of Canada that this application may not be successful?