Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Good morning to all of the witnesses. Thank you for being here. Bienvenue.
Mr. Smith, I want to address my questions to you this morning. I know you have a long history of representing management in collective bargaining, for decades, as you said in your remarks, and that you have great respect for the democratic process that collective bargaining represents.
I wonder if you think it's possible that those who have written and are proposing these changes, which would have the Treasury Board intervening directly in collective bargaining in crown corporations, don't really understand the collective bargaining process, and therefore don't understand the potential impact of the changes they are proposing here?