Transport committee  And, as such—

Transport committee  Commercial activities do not represent the articles or bylaws of a corporation. The articles or bylaws of a corporate structure are not its business arrangements.

Transport committee  Yes.

Transport committee  I repeat that we are in compliance and will continue to comply with our obligations under the Air Canada Public Participation Act.

Transport committee  I'm sorry?

Transport committee  Yes.

Transport committee  That is correct.

Transport committee  Air Canada is under the obligation to include provisions that provide for that in its articles. Air Canada is fully compliant with its legal obligations. I would draw your attention to the amount of business we gave Aveos.

Transport committee  I did not tell you that Air Canada has overhaul centres.

Transport committee  No, I told you that we were compliant with the act and that we outsource much of our business.

Transport committee  That is not provided for by the act.

Transport committee  There are 1,500 Air Canada employees in Air Canada's operational centres. I am not talking about Aveos.

Transport committee  Mr. Guimond, I would ask you to read the act's provisions; they do not give a minimum number. However, we must maintain this in our articles. Our articles include those provisions. There are different ways of meeting our obligations and this is written in our articles.

Transport committee  At present, there are some 3,000 Air Canada employees working at Aveos overhaul centres. We are complying with the letter of the law.

Transport committee  Those provisions are in our articles today. With regard to section 6, there was a requirement at the time of privatization and coming into force of the law in 1988, when the Government of Canada was still the sole shareholder of Air Canada. When Air Canada was sold publicly, the