Transport committee  Thank you very much for your question. First, it's important to say that we absolutely share the same objectives, 100%. To us, the departure point has to be negotiation. We are not convinced that going to the negotiating table with a ready-made bill will give us the leeway or le

Transport committee  We are not wedded to a model. We are wedded to outcomes, which is a world-class airport passenger security screening system. We are looking toward that. The process the government has laid out for us from our perspective falls short of what is required to achieve that goal.

Transport committee  That's exactly what happened with Nav Canada.

Transport committee  To Transport Canada's credit and to the minister's credit, we know efforts are under way to address some of the more glaring problems that had been identified after publication of the draft regs in December, but that leads us to where we are today. The final regulations have not

Transport committee  I will start by answering your last question. I think it's important to recognize the remarkable work of the management team and employees of CATSA, because really they have, for years, provided exceptional service in the financial and decision-making context in which they had t

Transport committee  It's a bit difficult to say; it's a hypothetical question. To manage to serve 90% of passengers in 10 minutes—that is one of our objectives—it would cost about $40 million more. The short answer is yes. That does not mean that we shouldn't evaluate other options as well. We sho

Transport committee  In the short term, it's almost impossible, especially given the transfer of assets, as Mr. Pugliese indicated, as this will put the organization in a position where it will have to finance the debt. We will add financing the debt to these operational costs. So to those $40 milli

Transport committee  I'm going to make a few comments. The Emerson committee, which was tasked with reviewing the Canada Transportation Act in 2015-2016, did indeed find a certain number of obstacles to competitiveness in our industry in Canada, such as the ones you raised. The review committee rec

Transport committee  The answer is yes, again because of the uncertainty that we're facing. We really do not know at this point what the next three or four years will look like with respect to carbon pricing for our industry, so it is a collection of challenges that are coming at us at this critical

Transport committee  We're on the record, with respect to passenger rights regulations, as saying that they're just not ready for prime time. The basic problem is that our industry is incredibly complex. The ecosystem in which we operate is incredibly complex. That complexity does not align well with

Transport committee  Thank you, Madam Chair and committee members. My name is Massimo Bergamini. I'll move right into my presentation. The National Airlines Council of Canada represents Canada's four largest airlines—Air Canada, Air Transat, WestJet and Jazz Aviation. 1 am pleased to be joined on

Environment committee  There's a lot of work going on in Natural Resources Canada, Environment and Climate Change Canada, and Transport Canada is participating. There is a sense that there are very tight deadlines that need to be met to develop standards. Incentivizing the commercialization of biojet

Environment committee  Yes, we support carbon pricing. It has to be the right approach. The Australian example is instructive because under the Australian model the emissions of their aviation sector did not decrease. The same is true in the EU where they operate under an offset system. Our carriers,

Environment committee  It's simply a question of survival.

Environment committee  I mean, it is an—