Thank you, Madam Chair. Transport Canada is looking at changing regulations around requiring the establishment of runway end safety areas, RESAs they’re called. That initiative or that regulation, if it goes forward, would impact our runways because we would need to construct these runway end safety areas and if that’s not possible, then you have to actually work
to shorten the length of the runway. So the required safety area can be provided at either end of the runway.
Transport Canada has come out with proposed regulations. They’ve done quite a number of different consultations on that. They’ve received quite a few concerns on that particularly from northern jurisdictions. We were one of those departments that expressed concern on that regulation and the changes, with the feeling that it might actually work to make it less safe than more safe, which is what they were trying to do.
Transport Canada has heard the comments that were received back, and the last update that I received, which was about two months ago, is they were taking a step back on the regulation. They were going to conduct a whole cost-benefit analysis of it and make sure that it would be meeting its stated objective, which was to make airport runways safer. So we are waiting to see the results of that review. Thank you.