Finance committee  Good morning. I'm Leona Alleslev, member of Parliament for Aurora—Oak Ridges—Richmond Hill, which is just north of Toronto.

Finance committee  But that's directly through capital assistance. It doesn't give where that other money goes—those airports and infrastructure that are not part of the NAS. Those, overall, are other elements that affect that.

Finance committee  Could you also talk just quickly about the national trade corridors fund and what kind of investments you're asking for in that—what specifically and why?

Finance committee  Thank you very much. I'd like to expand a little on the airport situation. I mean, not everybody understands that we have different classes of airports, with different amounts of funding and ways we support each of them. In this submission, you're talking about the NAS, are yo

Finance committee  Fantastic. Do we have a mechanism right now of evaluating the capital investment, infrastructure, and operating health of each of those NAS airports?

Finance committee  Your ask is to double the airport capital assistance fund, yet we don't necessarily have a clear picture of how healthy the capital infrastructure situation is at each of those airports.

Finance committee  Well, RESA is one of them.

Finance committee  It's almost a one-time item, theoretically, because if we extend the runway for safety, then we're done. It's once in a lifetime, hopefully.

Finance committee  So then we compare that with your ask to eliminate rent. Can you give us a comparison of the increase in the capital investment versus the offset of the decrease in the rent?

Finance committee  Exactly. You're asking for a doubling increase in capital investment while at the same time asking for significant reduction in annual recurring operating expenses through rent. Am I correct?

Finance committee  Ultimately, if we don't have a good picture of the health of those airports and therefore of the level of concern regarding the infrastructure and capital, we don't know if we should really be tripling down, because we're going to lose x amount of annual recurring operating reven

Finance committee  Is there room in the market for all of them?

Finance committee  Are we late to the game, or are we still in a position where we could have a command and market share, and a leadership position?

Finance committee  Further to that, could you expand a bit on Canada's expertise in satellite technology and how its history of command and control systems and space strategy is also feeding into this being a great place to launch, because you have those two parts of the equation here? Is that fai

Finance committee  Where would they have to launch? They can't—