Finance committee  I think the sense was that it had been slipped into the omnibus bill, so it perhaps hadn't had a lot of consideration by and consultation with industry. We were aware that the minister had concerns about private aerodromes and wanted the legislative authority to regulate in that

Finance committee  That's correct.

Finance committee  Well, our airports are governed by airport authority boards. They're all established under long-term leases with the federal government. I'm speaking, of course, of the national airport system airports. There are additional airports in our membership that are not NAS airports.

Finance committee  —or not expansion, of course, would have been part of the political process. Now they're under local airport authority not-for-profit corporations, and those decisions are made locally at the airport authorities themselves in consultation with the community and with their users.

Finance committee  That's correct.

Finance committee  Mr. Chair, ladies and gentlemen members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to speak to you about the proposed amendments to the Aeronautics Act contained in Bill C-43, which is before you today. My name is Daniel-Robert Gooch, and I am the President of the Canadian

Transport committee  Security is a different beast. At 89 airports throughout the country, screening—what you see when you're lining up as well as whole baggage screening and screening of non-passengers, which is employees essentially, the workers at airports—is conducted by the Canadian Air Transpor

Transport committee  It is not at those 89 airports with CATSA services.

Transport committee  That would be screening. That's not an airport authority conducting the actual operation. That's CATSA.

Transport committee  I don't want to get this wrong technically, so I'm going to defer to Gordon Duke.

Transport committee  If I may just add to that I would say on the airport side I would echo that comment. Transport Canada used to run airports. There was a large organization that served as a training ground for expertise in airport operations and when Transport Canada devolved airports to local air

Transport committee  I'm not sure that we could comment on numbers that are without context. Certainly, I'll ask my colleagues on the phone if they have anything to add to that. Gentlemen...?

Transport committee  Gord or Chris, do you have anything to add on this subject?

Transport committee  Generally, that is correct, yes. Mr. Nourse is going to add something in the northern context.

Transport committee  The northern airports are generally operated by the territory. In southern Canada we have a model where airports have been devolved, so we have 26 airports that are national system airports, where they officially are still on federal land. They pay rent to the federal governmen