It's absolutely paramount. We have a situation in Ontario where we have a province that's the most indebted of any provincial or state government in North America, largely as a consequence of arbitrated settlements for government employees at the provincial and municipal levels.
The Government of Canada is in a difficult spot. It's trying to bargain with federal government employees who are seeing provincial government employees and local government employees...you know, ticket takers on the Toronto Transit Commission earning six-figure incomes. It's outrageous. It's ridiculous.
Absolutely arbitrators need to be cognizant of the government's ability to pay.