Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Thank you, Mr. Minister, and thank you you to the officials accompanying you for appearing before the committee studying Bill C-257.
Mr. Minister, I will make an observation which you may respond to if you wish.
We have the impression that you feel there is absolutely no merit to studying a bill on replacement workers. Since you became minister, we have the impression that a campaign of fear is being waged. It is as if you wanted to tell Canadians that this is terrible and makes no sense whatsoever.
But surely there are some aspects of this bill which deserve to be considered. I am not convinced that a campaign of fear is the best way to explain the facts and to properly enlighten Canadians. As has already been said, you should remember that you were a member of Parliament in the past and back then you voted in support of a similar bill. I don't think that at the time you waged a campaign of fear and said that the bill made no sense.
I would like to know what you think about this.