Mr. Speaker, I agree that our policy for allocating international routes has had the exact opposite effect of what the hon. member wanted.
I realize this is a drawback. The hon. member will probably say so in his supplementary. When Canadian Airlines International decided to stop their service from Mirabel, at the same time, and I am sure the hon. member was aware of this, Alitalia, the Italian airline, made the same decision. The problem at Mirabel is that there is not enough passenger volume to support a service either by Canadian Airlines International or Alitalia.
What we are trying to do, and negotiations are now under way, is to see how we can solve the problem so as to provide an adequate service from Mirabel to Italy.