Mr. Speaker, I have two questions for the hon. member. He mentioned in his speech that the entrepreneurial spirit was alive and well, that they were fostering it and all that sort of thing.
When the minister asked the Competition Bureau to investigate the restructuring of the aviation industry, could the member explain why the minister did not restrict it to one narrow vision, the minister's narrow vision of a dominant carrier? Why did he not ask the Competition Bureau to bring back all the options and all the potential possibilities that may include the competition which this one does not? Instead, he just focused on one area and limited the bureau's review to that.
I would like him to comment on another matter. When the government called for proposals on August 13, it said that it would consider proposals for 90 days. Why did the government not then consider or make public its intention to consider changing the 10% rule? Why did it wait until there were only 16 days left in the process when nobody else had a chance to put a proposal on the table?