Madam Speaker, the comment was a very good one. I am sure that Canada has legislation applicable to air navigation.
What we would have liked to have seen done was for there to be included in the preamble to the bill a condition making safety a priority, so that Nav Canada's board of directors would never lose sight of it. This was not done.
Earlier in the House we heard about a very specific case of what can happen with a private corporation looking after the public interest, the example being ADM, which is a body very similar to the one being considered. It is a not for profit, private corporation
that will, in fact, look after the public interest. We saw that ADM is the solution to a number of problems for the government. There is no access to information with ADM, while there would have been with the government.
We can see, then, that the transfer to private corporations of responsibilities that, until now, belonged to the government places limits on a number of things. We would have liked to see the preamble to this bill include a statement, once and for all, to the effect that when Nav Canada's board of directors meets, priority will be given to safety of operation.