Clearly, there's a problem with section 107. What's going to happen is what we're seeing now, court challenges, as you mentioned, because the right to strike is protected under the charter. Any attempt to take away workers' right to strike will, of course, come up against legal challenges that are going to drag on for years, as is happening now. They're going to cost taxpayers money. On top of that, this will definitely meet with fierce resistance from workers.
Imposing a contract on workers creates a work environment where, as I explained, no one wins. Both sides don't leave feeling that they've won. It creates poor labour relations. Statistics show that unhappy employees are less productive. What the government is trying to fix on one side will actually hurt things on the other, and it will end up making the situation even worse. There are workplaces where people are unhappy because they didn't get their fair share of the profits the employer was making and a collective agreement was forced on them.
I know I have a minute. That's what happened at Air Canada in 2012. Workers ended up having to accept an arbitration-imposed contract with a two-tier pension plan and two-tier pay grade for new hires. The last 10 or 15 years have been a nightmare. The two groups work side by side, doing the same work, but one gets paid seven dollars less an hour.
