Mr. Speaker, I enjoyed listening to the member's speech on this bill, and quite frankly, I agree with him.
I asked the parliamentary secretary earlier what sort of negotiations were done, given that the Americans have potentially 2,000 flights a day over Canadian airspace, flying to Europe and other parts of the world, whereas Canada has only 100 or so, flying over American space. There is certainly a lot of room for negotiation there, because in terms of the Americans providing all that information to us on a reciprocal basis, that would be quite onerous on their part. They would think twice about trying to push this point with us if it were going to put a lot of pressure on them from their airlines and residents who are flying.
He did not answer that question at all. He avoided the question.
The question really is: did the government just roll over and avoid negotiating with the Americans and just accept the terms they were given by the Americans?