Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
This amendment provides for the restructuring to take place in a period of three years. The restructuring we are talking about is of Canadian Nuclear Laboratories Ltd.
The employees in that organization clearly came under federal jurisdiction in terms of their pension plan. There will be a negotiation in the new structure given that the organization is going to be taken out of the public system. For this restructuring to be done fairly, employees hired during the three-year restructuring period, and who are therefore part of the current bargaining unit, should be considered on the same basis as current employees. That would let us avoid ending up with a two-tier system with new employees having different conditions from those that are currently in effect. Basically, this is really about ensuring that, during the restructuring period, the same rules are applied to new employees hired during the negotiation period as exist for those who are currently employed.