That is right, but businesses must also be able to function. I want to come back to the importance of balance. Here are a few studies.
The Landeo, Nikitin study from 2005 said that the availability of replacement workers reduced the probability of a strike.
The 2005 Singh, Zinni Jain study stated that the effect of replacement workers depended, amongst other things, on the kind of industry the employer was operating in, but that they could cause antagonistic labour relations.
Another study, the 1999 Cramton, Gunderson and Tracy study, said that the average duration of a strike was 32 days longer in jurisdictions where there was anti-strike breaker legislation, and that the probability of a strike was 12% higher.
It seems that strikes last longer where there is anti-strike breaker legislation than where there is not, according to this study published in 1999, at the very time that Parliament passed the legislation. There are other similar studies. You can see that that contradicts certain perceptions.
Moreover, as far as the average length of work stoppages is concerned, from 1975 to 1977, before the legislation was enacted in Quebec and British Columbia, it was 28 days in Ontario and 37 days in Quebec.
Between 2003—