International Trade committee  To define what you mean by “cabotage”, it is the carriage of a passenger by a foreign airline between two points in Canada.

International Trade committee  Under the Canada Transportation Act the Minister of Transport has to designate a Canadian carrier to operate internationally under a specific agreement. The first step the carrier has to take is to come to us and request it be designated to operate, let's say, under the Canada-Ch

International Trade committee  We don't negotiate; we consult.

International Trade committee  In 2006 we had two.

International Trade committee  We now have open agreements that cover 44 countries, so those are the open skies agreements, plus the comprehensive agreement that covers all of the 28 EU member states.

International Trade committee  Yes.

International Trade committee  We have not done a study of each open skies agreement to see what has changed afterwards; however, we have some numbers in terms of the new services and the new destinations that have resulted from the implementation of the blue sky policy in general, but not specific to each ope

International Trade committee  No. There are numbers we could provide to the committee. We'd like to do that.

International Trade committee  To explain where this number comes from, the metric we use to estimate the size of a bilateral air travel market is the number of one-way trips. If you take a plane from Canada to another country, that's a one-way trip. If you return to your home, that's another one-way trip. On