Transport committee  I would invite the committee to take a look at the type of work that gets done in El Salvador. One can fairly rapidly independently make a determination on the realistic possibility that we would ever be able to move Air Canada work there. It services narrow-body aircraft. They d

Transport committee  It would be very difficult to quantify, because we don't have access to the arrangements, commercially, that a carrier like WestJet, for instance, has to go out and sort of determine, on a going forward basis, where the lowest cost for them to do maintenance is.

Transport committee  That's making a long series of assumptions about the workforce and the capacity that would be available and the actual metrics. One of the fundamental limitations in moving maintenance work is that you're actually moving the aircraft a good distance. Our maintenance bases in Mont

Transport committee  This goes to the Aeroman question, in El Salvador. It doesn't make a lot of sense to fly an aircraft to El Salvador to have it serviced. It's a fairly obvious calculation to make. In addition to any sort of bottom-line costs, you'd actually have to figure in the loss of productiv

Transport committee  WestJet subcontracts entirely. They maintain none of their own maintenance.

Transport committee  Yes, substantially. We also collect a few tax dollars on behalf of the government as well, through GST and HST.

Transport committee  We can come up with one.

Transport committee  The legislation is very clear in what our obligations are. As far as interpreting our obligations, Transport Canada was in front of this committee. It is Transport Canada that enforces. Air Canada does not enforce the statutes of the Government of Canada upon itself. So as far as

Transport committee  I'm sorry?

Transport committee  Lawsuits?

Transport committee  I can't speak to any potential future lawsuit. As far as we're concerned, we are compliant with the legal obligations the Government of Canada placed upon Air Canada, the corporation. On a going-forward basis, we have, as a corporation, no ability to enforce law. We do not enfo

Transport committee  To see it otherwise?

Transport committee  Far be it for me to make suggestions to the Government of Canada or to the Parliament of Canada as to how it wants to revise its statutes going forward. We have, since 1985, complied with the Air Canada Public Participation Act. It is our obligation to comply with it going forw

Transport committee  There would be a certain element of emergency maintenance, if an engine were to fail, say, in a foreign base or if there needed to be substantial maintenance done when the aircraft was located outside of Canada, but that would not certainly be the primary option.

Transport committee  Yes, certainly. Absolutely.