Transport committee  For other than security reasons? No.

Transport committee  No. When you go to check in, when we issue a boarding pass, we are checking your name against the U.S. no-fly list. We are executing a simple identification exercise, which is whether we can confirm that you are who you say you are.

Transport committee  Well, the U.S. transmits to us the list of names that we are to monitor. We don't have access to the U.S. no-fly list—

Transport committee  We can certainly do it well in advance of the flight so long as information is transmitted to us. For instance, at Air Canada we use the aeroplan number as a differentiator to determine identity, whether you are who you say you are. But yes, it is our intention, absolutely, just

Transport committee  I think I'd agree that any liability that exists, in terms of the airline, is probably pretty questionable. You know, we are simply transmitting data at the request of a foreign jurisdiction. We are not a law enforcement agency. I mean, this is contingent on you being allowed by

Transport committee  I wouldn't think that we would enthusiastically embrace any liability for something like that. We are not an immigration authority. We are not a law enforcement body. We are executing a security process on behalf of a foreign jurisdiction.

Transport committee  Directly by our membership, we're in the 35,000 to 40,000 range.

Transport committee  No, that's directly in the airlines--all of our catering, ground support in the case of Westjet, all the support around airports, employees at airports, that type of thing.

Transport committee  In Quebec, certainly for Air Canada, it's well over 5,000.

Transport committee  Direct employees. The head office is in Montreal, in Dorval, so the bulk of our management staff is there. We also maintain engine maintenance and crew bases for flight attendants and pilots. So in addition to those you see at the airport, anyone who's properly employed there, th

Transport committee  Well, 5,000--

Transport committee  Yes, if you add in Air Transat's employee base, which would again be predominantly in Montreal. I think the sum totality of Transat's a little over 5,000 employees, so easily you get into the tens of thousands, just in that one particular area of Quebec.

Transport committee  Yes, it is significant. Any attempt to capture leakage has been, for the most part, anecdotal. We have rough estimates that there are in the high hundreds of thousands to millions of passengers who are transiting through there. The best way to look at it is to look at the service

Transport committee  Yes, absolutely. Even at a more basic level, there's an enormous amount of foregone tax revenue associated with those purchases as well, putting aside the economic benefits. There's actually cold hard cash that would be otherwise collected.

Transport committee  It's entirely due to cost. The cost of Dorval, the cost of security at Dorval, the cost of maintaining the buildings at Dorval, the extra costs associated with airport rent in Canada--all of this compiles. In the U.S. your security charge is $2.50, and in Canada your security ch