I'd like to close by saying respectfully to the minister and those federal employers who are predicting doom and gloom, and particularly to the banking industry question, that someone should read the legislation. There are provisions to do with essential services.
We have had a significant number of strikes over the years in the telephone industry, and guess what? We're required to bargain essential services, and we do. So this doom and gloom that the banking industry is going to collapse because of a telco strike is erroneous. I would just really ask everyone to take a breath and stop acting like the employers did in Quebec, who said the world was going to come to an end; it didn't. The banks aren't going to close.
We really would like everyone to just lower the shrillness and talk about what the issues are, and we respectfully submit that this legislation would bring some civility to the collective bargaining process under federal jurisdiction.
Thank you very much for your time.