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View Chrystia Freeland Profile
Lib. (ON)
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Lib. (ON)
Do I have time for one more question, Mr. Chairman?
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Lib. (ON)
It's Wednesday afternoon, but you guys have actually been very radical in talking about the desirability of a Schengen visa arrangement in North America. How realistic do you think that is? Have you been talking to some counterparties about it? What impact would it have on your industry?
Maybe Mr. Taylor first and then Mr. Bruno.
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Lib. (ON)
I want to start off by thanking you both for your testimony. I'd also like to say that I'm pretty new to this file and have been meeting with a lot of stakeholders. They have been uniform in their praise of the skill of Canadian trade negotiators, so thank you very much for that. It's great to hear.
I want to start with a couple of really specific questions; I apologize in advance for my ignorance. On the blue sky policy website, I was able to find the figures for the increased outbound international traffic between 2006 and 2011. It has gone up by 50%. I couldn't find the figure for the inbound international traffic. Is it just the same, and that's why you didn't put it there, or am I missing something? Is there any meaningful difference?
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Lib. (ON)
Thank you.
I am also wondering how much of a sense you have of the implications of the stepped-up level of agreements on traffic regionally. In particular, I'm the MP for Toronto Centre, and we have a regional airport that is the subject of quite a lot of controversy, as I'm sure you're aware. I'd be interested in any information you could share about that.
Where are people going, and has there been more of an increase in some airports and regions than others?
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Lib. (ON)
Thank you.
Mr. Davies raised the issue of cabotage. I would be interested in a sort of blue-sky thinking approach on what your views are, as people who have been working in this area for a long time.
What should we be thinking in the longer term in terms of cabotage that would be beneficial for Canadian consumers, Canadian airlines, people who work for Canadian airlines?
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Lib. (ON)
Or vice versa, right? There could be cabotage in the U.S. that would be open to Canadian airlines, for example.
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Lib. (ON)
On a quick 10-second follow-up, when was it that you explored with the U.S. negotiator the possibility of this and they said, “no way”?
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Lib. (ON)
Yes.
The Chair: Go ahead.
Ms. Chrystia Freeland: Our chair, I am now learning, keeps us strictly to our time, so I'll try to get two quick questions in.
The first is a kind of macro one about some changes in the macro environment—the price of oil. Do you see the falling price of oil changing air travel in ways that are going to affect your negotiations? Is there going to be a lot more travel and are we going to be looking at a lot more desire for flying?
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Lib. (ON)
Have you done any projections on that? Are you making any plans based on that possibility right now?
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Lib. (ON)
Last question, Mr. Christie. You spoke a minute ago about your stakeholders being the carriers and the airports and trying to serve them in these negotiations. How do you fit in the interests of consumers and travellers and also of people who work for airlines? What's the balance you're trying to strike? I realize that it must be really hard. Multiplayer chess comes to mind. Can you give us a sense of your thinking when you're working with all of these different interest groups behind you?
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