I think that's entirely possible. It's one of the reasons I believe we need to have practitioners in the room discussing the potential short-term and long-term impact of the kinds of proposals that are being proposed.
I refer back to those consultative processes that have been used by previous governments, Conservative and Liberal, which used such processes so that the people who would actually be impacted, the people who are at the bargaining tables, have input and can provide the real-life stories from those bargaining tables of the kinds of potential impact the changes that are being proposed could have.
I am concerned that these changes are being made in isolation. I'm sure there is a back story that maybe we don't know about, but the problem is with their being presented in isolation and our not having an opportunity to fully discuss them and their potential impacts.
I also find it completely unusual. I've never discussed potential impacts on collective bargaining in front of the Standing Committee on Finance. Normally this would be in front of the human resources committee or a task force that had been commissioned by the government, or by the Minister of Labour. It would be in that forum with people for whom this is their life and their daily business, it would be among that group that those conversations would be taking place. So this is unusual and the first time in almost 40 years that I have made representations in front of a committee such as this.