Then the question becomes—and we've brought this up in the House—why didn't you get on the phone to Canada Post management and get the answer then and reinstate the benefits for those people? We know that under the Canada Post Corporation Act the corporation exercises its powers and duties in such a way as to comply with such directives as the minister may give to it. Why did you not see a need to tell your corporation not to cut off disabled workers during a rotating strike?
To be clear, Canada Post workers weren't out every day; it was a rotating strike. In any given region there were maybe up to four days on which those Canada Post workers weren't working, and every other day they went in to work, delivered the mail, and got paid. But the people who were on short-term disability, who were already collecting only 70% of their salary, didn't get paid at all.
How are they going to make that money back, if government doesn't reimburse them for the money they lost during that rotating strike?