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Transport committee That process has already started with our legal people. Any legal process now seems to take forever and ever. Realistically, the reasons why we're here, and what I'm hearing today from both sides here.... It really concerns me. As the chairman pointed out, these are the leaders o
April 3rd, 2012Committee meeting
Chuck Atkinson
Transport committee Not until after the shutdown.
April 3rd, 2012Committee meeting
Chuck Atkinson
Transport committee No, we definitely don't think that Aveos is a victim. It may just have been an oversight; I don't know.
April 3rd, 2012Committee meeting
Chuck Atkinson
Transport committee I think what we'd like to see is to get all the parties together at some point to sit down and talk about those solutions. I mean, it's—
April 3rd, 2012Committee meeting
Chuck Atkinson
Transport committee Well, at this point I'm not feeling real good about anything, because I still have so many people out of work—
April 3rd, 2012Committee meeting
Chuck Atkinson
Transport committee —so it's a tough position.
April 3rd, 2012Committee meeting
Chuck Atkinson
Transport committee They have no choice, because they're not getting money from anywhere. They've obviously had to start looking for places for any type of work to pay their bills and keep their kids fed and clothed.
April 3rd, 2012Committee meeting
Chuck Atkinson
Transport committee Well, the government, Air Canada, the unions.... If there are investors out there that are looking to invest in the company, or if there's someone who can operate it, then it should be all of us together working to try to make sure that it happens.
April 3rd, 2012Committee meeting
Chuck Atkinson
Transport committee Yes.
April 3rd, 2012Committee meeting
Chuck Atkinson
Transport committee It's early in the discussions, so at this point I can't say a whole lot about it.
April 3rd, 2012Committee meeting
Chuck Atkinson
Transport committee Sure. The vast majority of them would like to do that. As we talked about earlier, a decade of things being totally negative and a real trying time have definitely caused some people to start looking for other employment, which is one of our fears. If we don't do something quic
April 3rd, 2012Committee meeting
Chuck Atkinson
Transport committee The Aveos group would probably be under 40 as a whole.
April 3rd, 2012Committee meeting
Chuck Atkinson
Transport committee I accept that Aveos is gone. I'm kind of glad they are gone, because they don't seem to be a very good company to work for.
April 3rd, 2012Committee meeting
Chuck Atkinson
Transport committee It certainly does.
April 3rd, 2012Committee meeting
Chuck Atkinson
Transport committee That would be our goal.
April 3rd, 2012Committee meeting
Chuck Atkinson