Mr. Speaker, how delighted we are that finally a member from the government stood up to defend the bill in the House. We have been raising objections to it all morning and talking about different aspects of the bill that are seriously flawed. I would like to congratulate the member for having the fortitude to come to the House to give his speech even though it was woefully inadequate in answering any of the problems that we have raised.
I would like to therefore be specific. I would like to ask him a question with respect to governance and the appointment of members to the board. The act would require that there be 15 members and there is a breakdown that there must be two from the federal government and one from the provincial government and so on. However, there is no requirement in the bill that some of the board members on the airport authority actually be representative of the airlines. It is incredible that this has been missed.
I would like this member to either say to us that an amendment will be accepted that would require that it be mandatory, that the airlines and the airline industry be represented on this board or I would like him to justify why they are not because those are the only two options.