Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Transport.
On November 3, American Airlines and Canadian International filed an application for antitrust immunity with the U.S. department of transport. Such immunity would allow the two companies to merge their operations and act as a single carrier for transborder flights.
Will the minister clearly tell the two carriers that merging their transborder operations is not acceptable to the Canadian government, because it violates the Open Skies Agreement by giving American Airlines privileged access to the three largest Canadian airports, thus jeopardizing the activities of Canadian carriers?