Madam Speaker, recently I met with representatives of Air Canada, its subsidiary Air Alliance and Canadian International Airlines.
The problem facing the managers of these two companies is that their service is expensive in the regions because they do not have enough passengers. If so, it is also because prices are high.
I would ask my colleague if she would support, in the restructuring of airline services in Canada, having a carrier for international flights and an interprovincial carrier and having unrestricted competition to serve the regions. Local carriers would serve them and feed into the hubs for interprovincial and international flights.
I think we would then have more and better service regionally.