Industry committee  We share that concern, absolutely. That's why we support this legislation. We think it would be, in terms of our industry, a small step forward in making sure that we don't end up in that huis clos of having to go to a dealer that is maybe 200 or 400 kilometres away, depending on

Industry committee  Actually, Mr. Chair, it will be me, Ian Jack, who will be speaking first. Hello, everyone. Mr. Chair, honourable members, thank you for the invitation to appear before you today to speak about this topic. As noted, my name is Ian Jack, and I am VP of public affairs. With me is

Transport committee  I agree with Mr. Lukács. We have to deal with both of these things. We do have negotiations under way with the carriers to ensure that their policies on financial needs allow them to carry on. We need to get consumer confidence back up. A number of us have observed that there a

Transport committee  Mr. Chair, thank you. Do you mean additional conditions on the refunds or on the carriers?

Transport committee  Thank you for the clarification. I appreciate it. Just today we had one of the carriers announce that they're pulling out of a couple of small markets. Perhaps that's part of their negotiating strategy right now—I'm not sure. If I were a member of the committee, if I were the g

Transport committee  There are several jurisdictions around the world that have fairly clear black and white language. None of them are perfect. The U.S. law applies to domestic flights, not international flights. It doesn't cover everyone. There's no reason we can't simply right this in Canada. I th

Transport committee  Thank you for the question, Mr. Soroka. We think that at some point we are going to get past this pandemic. We will start to see air travel resume, perhaps not for some time now to the volumes it was at before. There were a series of reforms that were finally getting under way i

Transport committee  I think it's a bit of both. It depends on the jurisdiction. The U.S. law is clearer. Leaving aside what the Canadian law actually says, there's no doubt the American law, on this point, is crystal clear in terms of some refunds, at least, that were processed. In the European Uni

Transport committee  I don't think we can speak to the minister's motivation on this. I would say it's understandable that there was a lot of panic everywhere in the world—including, probably, in the corridors of Transport Canada—for the first few weeks of this pandemic. Nobody knew what was going on

Transport committee  Sure. If I were a politician, I might say that I don't like to comment on hypotheticals, Mr. Chair, but I will go ahead and answer the question. Under the circumstances, we have a government that has publicly stated that it will get refunds for people, and also that there is fin

Transport committee  Honourable members of the committee, thank you for your time. Thank you very much, sir.

Transport committee  My work here is done.

Transport committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I doubt I'll get a gold star, but I'll try my best.

Transport committee  Thank you very much to the committee for this invitation this afternoon. CAA was founded in 1913 to represent the interests of motorists originally, but the world has evolved since then and so have we. We have 6.5 million members today from coast to coast, and the services we off