Transport committee  On the first part of the question, what I can tell you is that some of those students are coming out of school as technicians, and they're supposed to do repair and overhaul of airplanes. They are certified, and instead of doing that, because those jobs are not available, they're working on doing smaller things in other companies.

Transport committee  If I may, Air Canada currently has 244 airplanes that used to be maintained pretty much here and that are now maintained somewhere else. Now we're talking about Air Canada purchasing—

Transport committee  Not necessarily. No, it's not because they're being built somewhere else. There are planes that are built in other places that used to be maintained here.

Transport committee  It's not only MRO. It's difficult when you're not in the industry and you don't understand, but I can give you a clear example. When you look at MRO, everybody thinks it has nothing to do with manufacturing. That is completely false. A company like Héroux-Devtek is one of the beautiful examples.

Transport committee  To add to that, don't forget that the workers have made $2 billion worth of concessions to keep their jobs in Canada.

Transport committee  It is exactly as you said. Justin Trudeau's remarks at that time were that this country's wealth is not extracted from the soil; it comes from the hard work and minds of the workers. Today, however, the government is doing the complete opposite. The Prime Minister, Mr. Garneau, and Mr.

Transport committee  Some of these companies do bid. You've been told point-blank, but from our understanding, from the information we have, some of these companies bid on some of that work.

Transport committee  I agree completely with Mr. Cadieux, but you are asking us why a restriction would be imposed on Air Canada, which is trying to compete with companies like WestJet. I wonder about something. At present, the government is delaying giving assistance to Bombardier, which is a private company, saying—and I have nothing against this—that it wants to protect and guarantee jobs before giving it money.

Transport committee  I can tell you right now about the province of Quebec. I can't speak for the whole country, but I know the two witnesses yesterday told you that there was a bunch of people who are being trained out west. I can tell you there are about 600 people right now in schools hoping to get some of those jobs, and if they're not there when they come out of school, then we're going to start having problems.

Transport committee  We have people coming down the pipeline.

Transport committee  It is growing everywhere in the world. We're not taking our fair share of it here. It isn't growing here.

Transport committee  It's not growing.

Transport committee  Yesterday you were told that in certain sectors it is, but overall we're not doing as much as we used to do.

Transport committee  I don't have the exact statistics, but I can tell you that we don't have as many jobs now as we did before.

Transport committee  I would just say that I don't think that's what I understood. What I understood is that they didn't know who bid on it.