Transport committee  Not really. If I may, I would just add on to what Mr. Badawey was saying before. In fact, I agree with you. For years—again, before Massimo's time, before he joined us—as head of the NACC I begged government for a strategic top-down integrated plan to help our strategic industr

Transport committee  May I make a comment about the European system, Madam Chair?

Transport committee  The European regulation right now is under enormous pressure from all groups as being a very poor piece of legislation. The European Council is trying desperately to amend it. They are not able to do it because of a problem they're having, a political problem. The European regula

Transport committee  I do not want to say that we had no responsibility in the situation we were just talking about. Airlines are part of the overall system and we all have a common responsibility.

Transport committee  May I answer that for you? No, that is not what we were alluding to. We were actually talking about the system of governance, the way in which airports are managed, how boards of directors are formed and who has the right to appoint administrators to those boards. As you know, a

Transport committee  Specifically, I would say that we have to start by requiring airports to have emergency plans for that kind of situation. That is clear. We have to know who is coordinating what, what the lines of communication are, and who you have to call when you need answers. These situation

Transport committee  No, not at the time. We have not done that.

Transport committee  We don't have empirical evidence that would point to that necessarily. What we do have is analysis in terms of the trend, in terms of ticket prices in Canada. I mean, that's something that the NACC has worked on, and it showed that mean prices have dropped domestically. Internat

Transport committee  In Canada?

Transport committee  No, we're not aware of them. Obviously WestJet is the second-largest airline in Canada, and I'm sure they would be able to tell you on their own if they have an interest in that, but speaking from Transat, we are always looking at ways of evolving our business model. We don't pre

Transport committee  I'll look at my colleague Massimo here. Maybe he can answer. We haven't really done an analysis of that.

Transport committee  Are you referring to coordinated industry action and objectives or are you talking about a carrier-by-carrier basis?

Transport committee  In 2010, as head of the National Airlines Council of Canada, we coordinated with our member airlines the filing of tariff commitments in our tariffs, which are contractually binding. Unfortunately, this is one thing that we've messed up in terms of the public debate because we sa

Transport committee  As I mentioned just now, in Canada, we are in a situation with one major player with major market shares, I might even call them market strongholds, that may be considerably supported by the proposals in the bill, were the Minister of Transport to agree to immunize that player ag

Transport committee  We're going to work with you. We're going to work with the CTA in the regulatory process. We will abide by what the ultimate verdict is in terms of the regulation. The devil is in the details, if you don't mind that expression. Clearly, we're working with enabling legislation h