Transport committee  It is, you're absolutely right. Nonetheless, the majority of the profits are in the U.K.

Transport committee  Thank you for your time.

Transport committee  Actually, you may be surprised to hear that we don't disagree as much as you think we do. I actually agree with your perspective in terms of routes where there's only one service provider. To borrow the Quebec Sept-Îles example, you mentioned that if there's only one carrier flyi

Transport committee  I'd go back to CanJet's own press release, when they ceased their scheduled operations. They talked about the cost structure in the sector. How does it vary specifically from Britain? I can point you to their airport structure, for instance. They have a rule that says when a Br

Transport committee  That point's very valid, and ultimately, Mr. Bell, as I said, if that's obviously what's passed, obviously we will comply. We want to do right by our passengers. I look forward to getting the same level of enthusiastic support from all members around this table when we come back

Transport committee  Thank you.

Transport committee  What motivates Transport Canada to support this bill?

Transport committee  Sorry. What are the elements we support. The elements we support, as I mentioned at the outset, are some of the less high profile ones, the ones related to introducing efficiencies at the CTA. For instance, they've introduced some clarifying language to make it clear that when th

Transport committee  Certainly if it comes to that we would be quite happy to. Are we ready to do that today? No, but only because we see most of our recommendations as being fairly broad, as opposed to technical in nature. So I can certainly tell you today what I'd like to get rid of, but in terms o

Transport committee  At the risk of sounding flippant, the answer to your question is yes, to all of the above. We have a formal structure, which is a committee structure, so we have different committees of our association focused on different topics in the industry and we meet on a fairly regular ba

Transport committee  It really depends. On this one, it didn't take that long. Like I said, it's the third incarnation of what essentially is the same legislation, so our membership had a pretty good understanding of what the basis or the thinking was. But for a brand-new piece of legislation that hi

Transport committee  In other words, I guess what I'm saying is we see the need to be treated like any other industry.

Transport committee  I think you're absolutely right; there is nothing to prevent us from doing that. Ultimately, at the end of the day, if that's where Parliament wants to go, that's where we'll go. We would just first respectfully offer this perspective: does it make a lot of sense to treat one ind

Transport committee  That's a very good point, which we haven't had a chance to discuss, and I'm not sure the extent to which it is exempted or included in the legislation, to be perfectly frank. But there is, as you can well imagine, a level of complexity in international airfare marketing that real

Transport committee  This is a power that the airline sector has been subject to since 2000. If I understand this legislation correctly, originally Bill C-26 proposed to extend it to other modes as well. Our opposition to it, again, just comes back to that principle of trying to look at the custome