That's right, and it will force unions like the lawyers—my former client, actually—to engage in strike action. They have no interest in engaging in strike action. They view it as inconsistent with their professional obligations. Of course, if the government ends up designating most of them as essential, they're going to lose access to any truly independent arbitration mechanism.
In answer to your question, is there some crisis in federal public sector labour relations, of course not. As I noted I think in my opening remarks, we just had the parliamentary review called for under this new legislation, which has only been in effect since 2003. The government participated in the review, as well as the unions, other stakeholders, experts. The government didn't ask for these changes in 2011. Nothing has changed since then. The review recommended none of these changes. It's hard to ascribe a motive of making good public policy to the government.