Thank you so much, Chair, and thank you to MP Blaikie for all his work and for bringing forward the bill that Scott Duvall previously brought forward.
As he said, these are deferred wages. There is a contract that you enter into, and you pay into your pension fund. You have severance terms that are all agreed to, and then at the end of the day, when the company goes bankrupt, in many cases executives get their bonuses, lawyers get paid, and it's billions, but people don't get their severance.
I'm absolutely supportive of putting that in here. I think it's important, and we want to make sure workers do get their wages. We talked to many stakeholders in the labour movement, like the Canadian Labour Congress and others, who are happy with the bill and the amendments we've talked about.