Yes, I would agree with you.
I would go back again to the whole concept of why certain industries are federally regulated. They are federally regulated because they are so important to the web of services Canadians expect, and on which that small business therefore depends. Whether you're talking about interprovincial trucking, rail service, port service, or airlines functioning, you have literally millions of businesses—and obviously Canadian society—depending on that to be well managed, on time, etc.
It absolutely has a huge impact, not only on society, some of whom won't go down to the corner to get the Pampers they need that day because they haven't come in, but on the corner store itself, which has nothing to sell because the goods have not come in, because a particular industry is on strike. I certainly agree with you that it has a huge impact on the very foundation of our economy, which is the small business.