Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question is for the Minister of Transportation. Mr. Speaker, I understand that Transport Canada is in the process of considering changes to the criteria for emergency response services, principally firefighting, for airports in Canada and that, particularly, they are considering factoring in requiring a minimum number of passenger movements per year before an ERS capability is funded. The present criteria simply requires so many movements of aircraft; 39 metres or longer per day. The new requirement would look at passenger volume, which would discriminate against airports like the one in my constituency which has the aircraft volume but not necessarily the same passenger volume as larger centres with fuller planes.

I would like to ask the Minister if he is aware of this review of the ERS criteria under way in Transport Canada. Thank you.