Mr. Speaker, I would like to present a petition on behalf of concerned workers and business owners at the Regina International Airport.
The signatories of the petition are concerned about the Liberals' proposed official languages administrative monetary penalties regulations and their application to businesses operating at airports. Smaller regional airports, such as Regina, do not have easy access to a fluently bilingual labour force, and as a result, it is not practical to expect every restaurant, souvenir shop and car rental business on the airport's property to offer services in French. They fear that penalties as high as $25,000 per infraction could drive them out of business. Their solution is to simply exclude from the regulations any airport with fewer than four million passengers annually.
I am pleased to have the opportunity to present this petition today in the House of Commons.