Thank you, Chair.
Certainly, it sounds to some degree that we're carrying on some of the conversations we had with the previous panel.
What I would really like to make comment on, first of all, is.... Mr. Bolduc, you asked what problem we are trying to solve. I think in the last panel we talked about the $88 million in supplementary estimates having to go to VIA Rail in terms of their pension plan. Our chair talked about the larger number, in terms of billions of dollars of unfunded pensions.
One of the examples, in terms of perhaps an agreement and a contract, Canada Post's collective agreement with CUPW includes a clause that CUPW members cannot be laid off. If an employee's position becomes surplus, for whatever reason, Canada Post must redeploy that employee within 40 kilometres of their previous job, or pay them to sit at home until a job becomes available.
In my community, the mill recently shut down. It was very difficult because 125 people lost their jobs. There are still 300, luckily. They kept the B line going. But those people had to look for other alternatives. I recognize it's very tough. I've been involved in the health care industry, where there are changes in the structure of our institutions and changes had to be made within the structure of the labour market.
Mr. Bolduc, within your organization, do you guarantee a job for every employee at the head office forever, regardless of whether there's work for them to do?