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Official Languages committee Air Canada was a company that held a minority of shares in certain regional carriers, as well as full ownership of a tour operator.
April 13th, 2010Committee meeting
Louise-Hélène Sénécal
Official Languages committee Air Canada is the incorporated company that is called Air Canada.
April 13th, 2010Committee meeting
Louise-Hélène Sénécal
Official Languages committee No, not at all. This is not what I am saying. I'm talking about the services that are provided. According to the law, Air Canada is subject to the Official Languages Act and to all its sections. Under section 25, we at Air Canada have an obligation to make sure that third parties, such as Jazz, provide services in both official languages.
April 13th, 2010Committee meeting
Louise-Hélène Sénécal
Official Languages committee Last fall, in 2009. In addition, we recently took back a minority of the shares of Aveos Fleet Performance, the company that maintains our aircraft.
April 13th, 2010Committee meeting
Louise-Hélène Sénécal
Official Languages committee The only entity that has an obligation under the Official Languages Act is Air Canada. It is the only entity that the Official Languages Act applies to.
April 13th, 2010Committee meeting
Louise-Hélène Sénécal
Official Languages committee No. That was clear. With the amendment to the Air Canada Public Participation Act in August 2000, Air Canada was under the obligation to ensure that its subsidiaries that provide services to the public do so in both official languages. The amendment to that act never created any direct obligations for the subsidiaries.
April 13th, 2010Committee meeting
Louise-Hélène Sénécal
Official Languages committee Air Canada was a Crown corporation at the time.
April 13th, 2010Committee meeting
Louise-Hélène Sénécal
Official Languages committee At the time, Air Canada was the only entity subject to this obligation. In fact, the situation created a legal vacuum, and it was not even clear that Air Canada had an obligation to its subsidiaries at the time.
April 13th, 2010Committee meeting
Louise-Hélène Sénécal
Official Languages committee When Air Canada was partly privatized in 1988, and then wholly privatized in 1989, the obligation, as it was worded in the Air Canada Public Participation Act, stated that Air Canada was bound to respect the Official Languages Act.
April 13th, 2010Committee meeting
Louise-Hélène Sénécal
Official Languages committee No, the tour operator was under its provincial jurisdiction.
April 13th, 2010Committee meeting
Louise-Hélène Sénécal
Official Languages committee To clarify, let us say that, with regard to the services offered by Jazz, we are subject to the Official Languages Act. Under section 25, we have an obligation to make sure that third parties providing services on our behalf do so in both official languages when there is heavy demand.
April 13th, 2010Committee meeting
Louise-Hélène Sénécal
Official Languages committee Good morning. Of course, it is the responsibility of parliamentarians to table a bill amending the Air Canada Public Participation Act. However, we are afraid that there remains some doubt with regard to Air Canada's obligations under the current legal framework. Perhaps you remember that the amendments made in August 2000 to the Air Canada Public Participation Act effectively imposed on Air Canada the obligation of making sure that any client of any branch of the company can communicate with that branch regarding airline services, and also obtain these services from the company, in either official language, when the demand is great.
April 13th, 2010Committee meeting
Louise-Hélène Sénécal