Mr. Lee, I studied physics at university, so I'm fairly up on comparative statistics. That said, I'm going to move on to someone who takes this more seriously.
Ms. Benson, at the committee's first meeting on Bill C-4, with public servants in attendance, we discussed services defined as essential. I asked Dennis Duggan what recourse the bargaining unit, the union and employees would have to challenge the government on an essential service designation. And this was what he said:
As I mentioned earlier, the initial process would involve a consultation period with the bargaining agent in question, but beyond that it would be judicial review.
What do you make of this shift towards the courts, this threat to unilaterally designate any given function as an essential service? In fact, Mr. Duggan even went on to say that no class of employment in the federal public service could be excluded.