Mr. Speaker, my colleague from Laval East has emphasized, quite rightly so, the issue of safety in air transportation. I would like to come back to the issue that has just been dealt with two or three times in a row relating to the preamble we would have liked to see in the bill and which some say is unnecessary since there is the Aeronautics Act, on the one hand, and on the other, the government controls safety issues.
In fact, would it not have been logical to express the very spirit of the legislation in its preamble? This is a private company that has to provide a public service, just like ADM. I find the explanations given by my colleague from Argenteuil-Papineau totally justified, because of this comparison.
It is quite justified to express right at the very start the spirit of this legislation, the spirit in which it must be interpreted later on, in order to stress the public service role of this private company and the primacy of public services over mercantile interests. We do not see why the government refused to express this very legitimate concern in the preamble.