Health committee  Good morning, and thank you, Mr. Chair. Honourable members of the committee, thank you for inviting me to speak with you today. My name is Carmelle Hunka. I am the vice-president, people, risk and general counsel at the Calgary Airport Authority. Airports play a critical role

Health committee  Yes. It's on Wednesday at 9 a.m. Mountain Time.

Health committee  For our cash flow position, we will be advising of a $23-million deficit in 2020 as a result of the pandemic. Our revenues were down about 60%, as we indicated. Our expenses were down about 38%. As you can appreciate, an airport has significant infrastructure, and while we've tak

Health committee  Our projection is that we will probably need to borrow, in addition to the $68 million, $200 million over the course of the next two years in order to remain cash positive. If we have to continue to borrow and we see the same types of situations, we may be cash flow negative and

Health committee  We will certainly need to—and we are committed to this—maintain and take on additional debt as we need to. That's not the direction we would like to go. We are hopeful that we will find a way to fund recovery and bring back our operation.

Health committee  We were advised that the pilot program was being cancelled as a result of the new testing that was being implemented Canada-wide.

Health committee  We were not provided with that evidence or information. We participated in the change as a result of the order in council. We participated in the switchover and supported the government.

Health committee  Certainly we support any testing that is being done at the airport, whether that's for domestic travellers, which is what we would like to see, or for arriving passengers. We do believe that the pilot program provided significant and strong data and information with respect to wh

Health committee  We have not received any of that information at this point. We continue to support—

Health committee  We have not gone and asked specifically for that information. We continue to participate in conversations and telephone calls with Transport Canada and otherwise with respect to the continued restrictions that are in place—

Health committee  No, they have not provided those directly to us. As I indicated, we have asked to participate in testing and have indicated that we are prepared to participate in as much testing at the airports as possible in order to enable and support recovery.

Health committee  We certainly are looking at our forecasts over the course of the next year. We are actually forecasting for 2021. We will be advising at our AGM that we're forecasting 5.1 million passengers compared with 5.7 million passengers in 2020. The 5.1 million is the same level of passen

Health committee  We have not received any indication. We continue to plan for supporting the continued testing, should it be required.

Health committee  Certainly, the airport authorities do support the opening of safe travel corridors and the use of a vaccine passport or some type of notification that could identify vaccines. We feel that vaccine passports, in conjunction with continued testing, would enable the travelling publi

Health committee  That would be an absolutely critical and important piece to the vaccine passport. We have seen that there has been very good enforcement with respect to the pre-departure PCR testing. We would consider that to be very important in order to ensure we have critical alignment with t