I would like to speak to clause 229.
Mr. Chair, I would like to share with committee members a memory from the 2006 campaign. It was my first election campaign. I met a couple of employment insurance employees who were working very hard. In fact, they were working six days and three evenings a week. I couldn't help but ask them how they could put up with such working conditions. They told me that they didn't want to penalize employment insurance recipients.
Let's go back to clause 229 and government interference. Actually, this also has to do with clause 228. I find it really quite dangerous that the government wants to influence the bargaining process for organizations as sensitive as the Bank of Canada and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board.
I want to focus on that last example. The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is an agency that decides the fate and future of millions of Canadians. It really is very important. Obviously, the government is opening up a Pandora's box without knowing the situation, while its lack of judgment and interference in the process could lead to dysfunction.
I don't want to go over it again beyond a certain point, because my colleagues have already spoken about it, but a bargaining process aimed at signing a collective agreement is always delicate. It is already challenging when two parties are involved. When a third party joins the negotiations, it slows down the process. Imagine if it got out of hand and organizations as independent as the ones I mentioned became dysfunctional. It is absolutely unbelievable that we can expose Canadians to this kind of thing.
I'll stop there. Thank you.