I was wondering if I could make a quick response.
Jim posed the rhetorical question, “What are you trying to accomplish here?” That still is the fundamental question we're trying to grapple with. The record since the Sims task force and the legislation that followed clearly indicates that there's no need for this legislation, that the current system is working.
So we have trouble understanding why, at this particular time, there's a need for a major change to current federal labour code legislation. It's being done in such a way as to really fly in the face of the kind of relationship we've developed in British Columbia, where the sides are willing to sit down at the table and work through any changes that are necessary in labour code and employment standards.
Jim Sinclair's organization and my organization try to cooperate in a number of ways, but when it comes to major changes to the labour code, we have a process and a system in B.C. that allows the parties to be at the table discussing these things. I fail to see in the current approach to Bill C-257 how that's been done, and I fail to see how it's going to make a significant positive change to an environment that's already positive.