Mr. Caron, one of the easily foreseeable consequences of this is that at arbitration hearings bargaining agents, unions, will bring evidence that taxation levels have been artificially suppressed or are too low and that the government in fact has the ability to pay. Those arguments will be made before an arbitrator. An arbitrator will also have to consider evidence from the government, and what we're going to end up with will be longer, more expensive arbitration hearings.
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation has always simply urged government, the government of the day of whatever party it is, to spine up at the bargaining table, to bargain hard, bargain effectively, and to bargain the toughest deal they possibly can on behalf of taxpayers. Along with the evidence that's been presented by the C.D. Howe Institute, we believe it is clear that taxpayers win when you have freely bargained agreements and strikes.