Finance committee  Yes, sir. I think the biggest revelation we found was this tax on the purchase of an aircraft. We already pay tax to our maintenance engineers. We pay fuel tax. We pay landing fees. We pay fees to the pseudo-government agency, Nav Canada, which controls and operates our very safe

Finance committee  Absolutely. As an owner of a small aircraft, and certainly a member of that community in my day-to-day operations, I do feel that we are being unfairly targeted. As Ms. MacEwen just pointed out, we're being targeted for our $100,000 airplanes. Most general aviation pilots have

Finance committee  That will actually trickle down to our commercial pilots as well. Before the pandemic, we were in a critical situation in North America, and even worldwide, with a shortage of pilots who could join the ranks of the commercial air operators. Our ability to visit P.E.I. to play gol

Finance committee  I can speak a little to that. One of the primary functions of helicopter and agricultural operations—this is primarily driven in the Prairies, just because of the large number of farming communities we have out here, and in some cases it is the only way—is to ensure that those c

Finance committee  Thank you very much. I am very excited and I am hoping that at some point the bank calls and tells me that I have become part of this program.

Finance committee  Good morning, everyone. I apologize. I'm not likely to be as eloquent as some of the other speakers here. I'm just some simple farm kid from the Prairies, but I did want to speak today about the luxury tax that's been proposed to be imposed on aircraft. I grew up in the Prairi