Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I have questions about division 7 on post-secondary educational institutions.
I think some things in the example of Laurentian University were quite concerning. My colleagues Charlie Angus and Carol Hughes have done a lot of work on this, and the fallout was that the CCAA was being used for a public institution. It seemed that part of the motivation for that was to get around good-faith bargaining and to get out of their collective agreement commitments. That's presumably something that can happen with other public institutions outside of the post-secondary educational institution space.
I'm wondering if the government has looked at what it would take to be able to apply provisions like this more generally so that we don't have to suffer another example in order to move to prevent this kind of bad-faith engagement with employees.
Under the Harper government, the Canadian Nuclear Laboratories was created, and we saw workers get pushed out of their pension plan, for example. What was created was not quite a public entity, and those employees were moved from a public entity into this amorphous organization that wasn't quite private and wasn't quite public.
What else can and should we be doing in order to avoid workers' getting screwed when governments decide they don't want to live up to their commitments?