Mr. Speaker, I am not dominating here. I am always looking around to see if anyone else is standing. I would be most willing to concede the time to another member who would like to participate. But I just need to follow up with this.
Here is a member from the Liberal government who has come here to face the music on this bill. As I and my colleagues have said, and one of the other opposition members this morning, here are some flaws which need to be fixed. The role of Parliament is to fix things. If we do not ever accept amendments to improve a bill, we might as well shut this place down because it would not be fulfilling a function.
I am putting the member on the spot and he ought to be because he is here as the official spokesperson for the government. I will repeat this question again.
It is clear in the legislation that, of the airport authority directors, there can be from 11 to 15 members, that 3 to 5 of them can come from 2 of the following groups, and those groups are listed. One of those groups is the domestic air carriers association. However, there are four other groups in that listing. We could easily get three members from those four other groups. It is feasible that there might be zero representation from the airline industry. It is not mandated. That is my issue.
I is mandated at Nav Canada. It is required that four of the representatives be representatives from the airlines industry and one from general aviation, so that we would have 5 out of 15. It is mandated in the act.
In this bill, it simply says that here are five groups, some of them may come from here but they do not have to. Will he support a compulsory amendment to the bill which would require airline representation?