Madam Speaker, I did not catch all the member's speech but I did hear the part where she talked about creative solutions.
It seems to me that in restructuring Air Canada, the unions, the pilots, the ground crews, the flight attendants and all the employees may have to put some water in their wine. They may have to make some concessions to make the airline viable. I am not privy to all the airline's business but it seems to me that is a possibility.
If they have to do that, why would Air Canada not allow its employees to participate in the ownership of Air Canada? We have the precedents of USAir Inc. and Delta Airlines Inc. This would give the employees of Air Canada an opportunity to participate in the success. It might allow those employees to become even more customer focused, even more service oriented than they are today. Frankly, I think they could use some encouragement in that area as probably all of us in the House have discovered from time to time.
Would the member opposite support an employee share ownership plan that would allow the employees to own shares in Air Canada?