Mr. Speaker, I am happy to have the support of the hon. member for the government's program of deregulation in the airline industry. We have absolutely no plans to re-regulate the industry. We have no intention of doing it.
What I offered to Mr. Buzz Hargrove of the auto workers Thursday of the week before last, more than 10 days ago, was that I would look at a report he gave to me on certain airline industry issues. He rejected it out of hand. I repeated the offer to look at the report he had given me. I repeated it last week and he rejected it again quite bitterly. I then put it in writing and he rejected it again.
He has now accepted the offer. My only regret is that if he had done so over 10 days ago, millions of dollars of ticket sales would have taken place for Canadian. Unfortunately the company did not get those sales because of the intransigence of Buzz Hargrove.