My presentation highlighted three areas, particularly strikes. When members are forced to strike as their only bargaining tool, then services will not be provided to Canadians. We question how that can save taxpayers' money. We only have to look at the foreign service officers to see a very recent and tangible example of that.
The second example is the overcomplication of the grievance process. The AJC is a group that uses group policy grievances. A group policy grievance says that when we think something is being breached in the collective agreement we can file as an association, as opposed to bringing 2,700 individual grievances when we want retroactive remedies. Bill C-4 eliminates that, so you're going to have potentially—for our group anyway, and we're one of the smallest—2,700 individual grievances to get a remedy. How is that cost-effective?
Finally, on the chairperson being able to review an adjudicator's decision—by the way, nowhere else in any jurisdiction in this country is that allowable, and the reason is that it's not efficient. You have another layer of bureaucracy, and over and above the costs, which are real, you have questions of political interference, bias, and those issues. Mark my words, there's a cost implication of having an extra layer.
We've brought out three tangible examples of where costs are not saved with this legislation.
Thank you.