Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Ms. Payne, I want to go back to talk what I didn't get to last time: the changes to geographic certification. Again, this is a massive expansion. Now, any two employers can apply to geographically certify any union in any industry, in any place in the country. Talk about a massive expansion. It used to be very different.
In fact, I put this to the minister: If you look at the port of Montreal, for example, there are CUPE 375, CUPE 5598 and ILA 1657. What would happen if two employers there decided that they should all be merged into one union? They are two completely different unions. She seemed to say, “Yes, the CIRB will sort it out.” To me, this seems really bad.
