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Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I will answer briefly. I appreciate the opportunity to respond to a really great question. Our oldest piece of freight on hand today is three days old, and it's chips. We have a very sophisticated tracking system on our inventory. We make sure that the product is moved very quickly so that we don't have the waste that you're talking about.

May 8th, 2024Committee meeting

Gary Bell

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I think that's a great question. Jean-Pierre mentioned earlier that a lot of the time people were ordering less of the produce, vegetables and that healthy food and were buying other products instead, such as rice, pasta and those kinds of items. We don't break our product down in terms of every single category like that, but we certainly have seen, overall, a shift away from some of the produce and the vegetables into other categories because they're too expensive.

May 8th, 2024Committee meeting

Gary Bell

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  They went up 30%, and have only gone down 6% this year.

May 8th, 2024Committee meeting

Gary Bell

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We would say, instead of restricting the pilots' duty day, simply change it so that when the pilots report for duty, that's when their duty day starts, instead of changing the number of hours they can operate in a day.

May 8th, 2024Committee meeting

Gary Bell

May 8th, 2024Committee meeting

Gary Bell

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I think it's about 15% on the cost of fuel.

May 8th, 2024Committee meeting

Gary Bell

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  In December 2019, Transport Canada changed the flight duty fatigue regulations. This was largely to counter some of the major airlines that were not counting the time of deadheading pilots, which means the time they're on board as passengers going to their destinations to start their flying.

May 8th, 2024Committee meeting

Gary Bell

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I understand that it's just over 20¢ per litre right now, and I expect it to go to over 40¢ per litre by 2030.

May 8th, 2024Committee meeting

Gary Bell

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It's about $2,000 more now.

May 8th, 2024Committee meeting

Gary Bell

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That makes it more expensive.

May 8th, 2024Committee meeting

Gary Bell

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  With the exception of Nunavut, which is exempt from the carbon tax, it's been more expensive throughout northern Canada.

May 8th, 2024Committee meeting

Gary Bell

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Right now, the cost of the carbon tax for the locations that it applies to is about a 15% increase on the price of fuel.

May 8th, 2024Committee meeting

Gary Bell

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  From Winnipeg to Churchill, the cost increase on that flight would be about $2,000.

May 8th, 2024Committee meeting

Gary Bell

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Initially, we do, as an airline, but we're having to pass it on to our consumers. Whether it's food, tourism or medical supplies, it's all being passed along.

May 8th, 2024Committee meeting

Gary Bell

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Good afternoon, Mr. Chair and honourable members of the committee. Thank you very much for the opportunity to present today. I am pleased to join you in my capacity as president and CEO of Calm Air. As a regional airline established in 1962, Calm Air now provides essential scheduled passenger and cargo services to 19 communities across central Nunavut and northern Manitoba.

May 8th, 2024Committee meeting

Gary Bell