International Trade committee  Air transportation agreements are negotiated by Transport Canada outside of trade agreements. We have had some issues. There was a case in Venezuela. We stopped our service to Venezuela due to safety concerns for our crew and our aircraft. Aside from that extreme example, in Colombia we have an issue where there is a fee for scheduled carriers operating in Colombia.

International Trade committee  Thank you.

International Trade committee  Into Delhi...?

International Trade committee  With respect to Delhi, Air Canada was operating to Delhi a long time ago. That flight unfortunately proved not to be feasible at that time. It was cancelled and I'm talking about years and years ago. Air Canada is in a position now where a decision to enter into a market requires a number of things to be right.

International Trade committee  Yes.

International Trade committee  It's a good question. Okay, I can make that short. I think it's baby steps. We're in Delhi. We've fostered that market. That market's doing well. Then we're into Mumbai. Then we'll look at other destinations if the market can withstand that.

International Trade committee  If you don't mind, I'll answer in English.

International Trade committee  Air Canada has made a substantial investment in Bombardier, in particular in the C Series, and not only in the C Series but I think we operate probably the largest Bombardier fleet in the world between us and our partners at Jazz. We are not walking away from Bombardier. We do operate some Embraer aircraft.

International Trade committee  I can't tell you specifically what the ratio is. Again, it is a little commercially sensitive. What I can tell you is that our cargo operations, because we don't operate dedicated freighters anymore, are pretty much limited by the remaining space in the belly of the aircraft, so I'll leave that to you.

International Trade committee  Do you mean to find bilingual staff?

International Trade committee  We have our challenges finding staff across Canada to the capacity that we need, because we are legislated in the Air Canada Public Participation Act to be bilingual. But we have very robust programs to ensure that our front-line staff, our operating staff, are almost fully bilingual across our operation.

International Trade committee  I will take that back.

International Trade committee  We are. I obviously can't share the information about our passenger volume. It's commercially sensitive. Our volumes on both the passenger and cargo sides are very strong and increasing year over year, so much so that I would add that we have dedicated two aircraft to Argentina and Santiago instead of connecting through both cities.

International Trade committee  The infrastructure in Canada or in South America...?

International Trade committee  There is probably about equal trade going to South America and to Canada. I think what we find is that most perishable items come into Canada where the infrastructure is very solid. I cannot speak in too much detail because I'm unfamiliar with the infrastructure for cargo in those airports, but I can tell you, if it wasn't adequate, we wouldn't be operating at the levels we are down there.