Transport committee  Yes.

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

Transport committee  That might help, but the fact remains that the problem is entirely due to cost.

Transport committee  If it's cheaper in Plattsburgh, people will go there.

Transport committee  Perhaps a bit, but it's ultimately a question of cost.

Transport committee  Yes, it's been well over.

Transport committee  Do you mean on a Canadian aircraft, a security incident? No, there's nothing related to that.

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  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.