On February 19th at the Charlottetown Airport, Air CClIli:\daJazz staff was informed via telephone that a certaIn "V.J.P.

that a certaIn "V.J.P." would be

late arriving for Air Canada Flight ff 7677 to Montreal. The fllghtwas scheduled to be in the air at 1725hrs with a flight load of
thirty two passengers.

At 1720 hrs thirty of the thirty two passengers had already boarded the plane. The two remaining passengers, Conservative MP
and Minister of State for the Status of Women Hon. Helena Guergis and her aide Emily Goucher were at the Air Canada counter
being so diffIcult and rude to Air Canada representatIve Alan Bagley that he almost refused to allow them to board to spite theIr
"V.I.P." status. They berated hIm loud Iy and treated him In a most condescending manner after he told them some of their
excessIve bags were too large to be carry~oll and should be checked. At one point the Hon. Helena Guergis told Mr. Bagley that
she ".... knew Ron McKinley". Apparently she wasn't aware that as Minister of Transportation Mr. McKinley was not in charge of
carry-on baggage, more's the pity.

At 1720 hrs. Inside the preboard screening area, five minutes before the time whell the flight was scheduled to be in the a Ir, Air
Canada representative Sonja MacMillan paged both Hon. Helena Guergis and Ms. Goucher over the P.A. and after having waited
considerably forthem already, proceeded to the aircraft with her paperwork.

At 1725 hrs., flight time,Hon. Helena Guergls and Ms. Goucher started into the preboard .area to be screened by the securIty
staff. When asked to remove her overcoat she compiled, but refused to remove her blazer, and when informed that her
footwear might set off the walk through metal detector, she refused to remove them as well. After proceed1ng through the
metal detector, she alarmed it and was screened by Screening Officer Melissa Murnaghan. She Was asked to sit down and
remove her footwear at this point due to the fact that they had caused the alarm. At this point the Hon. Helena Guergis took a
seat and huffily started to rernove her footwear, upon their removal she slammed her boots into the b'!n prOVided by Ms.
Murnaghan and then the Minister of State for the Status of Women said to Ms. Murnaghan, a single mother working to support .
herself and her son, "Happy Fucking Birthday to mel I guess I'm stuck on this hell hole\" Ms. Murnaghan, in a credit to her
professionallsrn, did not reply to this comment, nor did the other screening staff on duty; Donald Wood, John Blrt, Andrew
MacEwan, Wanda chlnery, or Andrew Williams. Ms. Murnaghan then put the footwear through the X-ray machine.

As the footwear cleared the X-ray conveyor, Hon. Helena Guergls then shouted at her aide Ms. Goucher to "Get those for me I
1'm not walking around here In sock feet!."

HaVing then cleared mandatory security screening without further InCident, and having been handed her boots by her personal
servant Ms. Goucher, Hon. Helena Guergis then attempted to force open the locked door that separates the preboard seating
area from the apron, upon which Air Canada flight # 7677 continued to wait. Screening Officer MacEwan, closest to her
Informed her that the door was indeed locked and that she would have to wait for the Air Canada representative (Sonja
MacMillan) to return. Hon. Helena Guergis then shoutea across preboard to Mr. MacEwan "Well, can't you call her or
something!?" Mr. MacEwan replied that no, he had no way of contacting the Air Canada representative while she was airside
and that she would have to wait. He also told her that passengers were normally requested to be at the airport at least two
hours before flIght time. The Hon. Helena Guergis then shouted back across preboard to Mr. MacEwan "I don't need to be
lectured about flight time by you I I've been down here working my ClSSoff for you people." Taken aback by thIs unnecessarily
venomous response, Mr. MacEwan decided to end the conversation on his part.

Hon. Helena Guergis and her aide Ms. Goucher then decided that the best course of action would be to go to the eastern end of
the preboard screening area and attempt to get Ms. MacMillan's attention by screaming and hammering on the sound proof
tInted glass that separates preboard from airside.
At this point, Sonja MacMillan returned from the plane, and being unaware of the commotion caused by the Hon. Helena
Guergis and her aide Ms. Goucher, she processed them without further incident ahd allowed them to board Air Canada Fllght #
7677 to Montreal.

As they were being processed and allowed to board, Air Ci.'lllada representative Alan Bagley entered preboard to see what the
yelling he had heard way out at the counter WaS about. Screening Officer Andrew Williams, during a security sweep of
preboard, dIscovered two passports and tlckets belonging to Ms. Goucher and Hon. Helena Guergis and gave them to Mr.
Bagley who then returned them to Ms. Goucher alld the Hon. Helena Guergls as they were finally headed towards their flight.