Mr. Martin, as I said a little earlier when I spoke in response to Ms. Lavallée, we would have hoped, as employees at Radio Nord Communications, for there to be no replacement workers from 2002 to 2004, when we were in a labour dispute. That way, we could have continued to dialogue and work to resolve the dispute.
I would like to highlight the fact that our labour dispute at Radio Nord Communications was not about wages. We were not asking for better pay; we were not trying to stuff our wallets. The dispute initially came about because, as people working in the communications trades in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, we wanted people in our region to have better radio and television services. That was the source of our labour dispute.
Mr. Martin, I would say to you that if bill C-257 is passed then if the workers at Radio Nord Communications have to faced the same situation some day, they will be able to talk with their bosses and everyone on both the union and management side will have to work out their conflicts and their differences as all reasonable people do in normal situations.
The current situation is like telling a man who is having marital problems that he can take a mistress thereby avoiding to solve his problem.