Mr. Speaker, in less than six weeks the federal government is supposed to assume responsibility for airline security, but the government is not going to make the deadline.
Yesterday, outside of the House, the transport minister said that it was going to take a number of months, either November or December, until the new regime was put in place. He said “No one is going to click their fingers on April and see everybody in new uniforms with new standards and new procedures”.
Why should Canadians pay the airline tax when they will not get new airline security for another eight months?