Mr. Chairman, I would just like to come back to the statistics brought to our attention. According to our data, between 2003 and 2005, on average, work stoppages in Quebec lasted 47 days, compared to 38 days for Ontario. We're talking about recent data here. In addition, despite the legislation which is currently in effect in Quebec, the average length of work stoppages in that province went from 37 days between 1975 and 1977—in other words, just before the law was passed—to 47 days between 2003 and 2005. Despite that law being in place, work stoppages lasted longer. And finally, just as a basis for comparison, between 2003 and 2005, the number of work days lost in Quebec is one and a half times higher than in Ontario. Those are the figures we have. Nothing in what we have seen would indicate that anti-scab legislation would be more helpful on a Canada-wide basis and resolve the problems people have alluded to.
In fact, if you look at the first page of today's newspaper, it says that the majority of Quebeckers don't like union leaders and believe that unions have too much power in Quebec.