Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I am pleased to hear my colleagues opposite say that this is a private member's bill. The parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities must be confused because he always presents it as a Conservative bill. He has done so repeatedly.
I think we have to stress the fact that, kind of like the Canadian Bar Association wrote in its document, this is potentially a very expensive solution to the problem… Actually, we do not fully understand the problem that needs to be solved. I have to stress that: there were six complaints in a year for 4.2 million unionized workers. That cannot really be said to be a problem. Are things perfect? No, but it is quite a good percentage, thank you very much. If it were a baseball batting average , it would be very satisfactory, I feel.
Mr. Blakely, you represent middle-class working people, plumbers, electricians. They pay union dues. From now on, their organizations are going to have a very expensive administrative burden on their shoulders, while their people need services from their own unions. What effect will a bill like this have on your members, on the people you represent?