Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I will be very brief, but I have a lot of confidence in Mr. Adler. I would suggest that I listen to unions as well, because I represent more union members, I think, than probably everyone else at the table combined—in Fort McMurray, something I'm proud to say. They elect me with about 72% plurality, so I do listen to unions.
In this particular case, I would suggest that it comes down to management style. We saw the management style.... Mr. Brison asked what has happened. Two things have happened—really, four things. One is a global economic crisis because of which people are watching their pocketbooks now and are worried about debt. They're concerned about that particular issue, especially their own bank accounts.
The other three things are the elections in 2006, 2008, and 2011, which said that the people of Canada don't like the management style of the Liberals—or, apparently, the NDP, since they're taking the same position—and they like the management style of the Conservative Party, because they know that the Conservatives will take care of and protect taxpayers' money.
It makes a lot of sense to have a mechanism in place to intervene, if it becomes abundantly clear that the terms are unreasonable. It frankly makes sense to me in any context, because the money we're talking about and that they want to spend is a huge percentage of the budget, first of all. Second, it is Canadian taxpayers' money, which should be treated with pristine, serious accounting rules to make sure that the money is not spent unreasonably.
I think that mechanism is abundantly clear, and our management style on that is going to be supported in the next election by Canadians.