International Trade committee  Since we negotiate the expanded agreements based on the advice and requests we receive from our carriers, we normally would see the demand there and see them grow. Having said that, there are certainly examples where one of our domestic carriers has asked for additional rights, w

International Trade committee  No, I have nothing to add to that.

International Trade committee  We wouldn't be dictating the terms of an agreement. Basically, if it's our interest to consider expanding an air agreement with another country, we'll approach that country. By that time, we've already heard from our stakeholders, through our consultative process, that they're in

International Trade committee  As I mentioned to you, the way the process works is that we receive advice from our airlines, for example, or airports in terms of their priority markets. Once we have an expanded air agreement, then the legal framework is put in place, which we implement and bring into law as a

International Trade committee  I guess one example would be if we didn't feel there was sufficient interest on behalf of Canadian passengers to travel to that market. Another example would be if we felt that a foreign carrier was asking for an open-skies type of agreement with Canada with unlimited rights to f

International Trade committee  It's 25%.

International Trade committee  No, the right continues to exist until we sit down with the other government to renegotiate the air transport agreement. I don't know if there are any examples of us lowering the number of frequencies, for example, in an existing air agreement. We normally build on them, but we h

International Trade committee  As I mentioned earlier, an open skies agreement has very few restrictions at all in terms of the rights that foreign and domestic airlines can take advantage of in each other's market. For example, for our open-skies type of agreement with the United States, there's no limit. The

International Trade committee  We haven't done that type of analysis. I'm not aware of any.

International Trade committee  I was referring to the GMAP. As you know, the current global market action plan not only identifies 50 priority markets for Canadian businesses, but also identifies certain sectors and certain professions that we're trying to advance opportunities for. So for air transport in our

International Trade committee  Sorry, which ones of the 50 are we not...?

International Trade committee  The five GMAP markets that we're not negotiating with are Brunei, Burma, Madagascar, Kazakhstan, and Zambia. Again, the reason is that they're small markets, essentially, and there doesn't seem to be an interest to exploit the opportunities in those markets. In terms of the plan

International Trade committee  Okay. I'm just going to list some of the countries: Antigua and Barbuda, Cambodia, Haiti, Cuba, Bolivia, Indonesia, Grenada, Japan, Australia, Mexico, and China. That gives you an indication of the countries that we hope to meet with this year.

International Trade committee  In my situation as the chief air negotiator, I report to the deputy minister of international trade in my department, but I also report directly to the deputy minister of Transport Canada. In that respect I have two bosses to whom I report simultaneously. Marc has his own managem

International Trade committee  No, not in our transport agreements. It depends on the agreements, but we normally would identify the national carriers in the specific air agreement that we negotiate. Marc may want to add something.