Look at who "stars"in the report-- ATAC. These people represent the flight schools and the airlines alike. Having the gov't get involved feeding money to the flight schools while having a ready supply of cheap (supply vs. demand relative) pilots available to the Canadian airlines is a win win situation for the ATAC constituency. I remember a number of years ago the Regional Airline Assoc. lobbied Congress to institude a gov't sponsored training scheme to supply enough qualified pilots to the regionals (which pay miserable wages) since the military was downsizing and wasn't supplying enough. North American airlines are too cheap to do what foreign airlines have been forced to-- namely start their own ab initio programs.