Mr. Chairman, I'll just quickly comment.
I think there's a theme here with fear-mongering...and your last point, sir. I represent the grocery industry. For the most part, I think, we have a pretty good record of negotiated settlements, despite the huge size. It's not so much the commitment to respect essential services. In our case, ours is such a complex supply chain that a tiny little hiccup in the just-in-time practices causes huge havoc. And this is not fear-mongering, because we've actually experienced it.
In the Port of Vancouver strike, we had to take all of those tens of millions of kilograms of food, put them on a rail, and ship them all the way to Calgary and then all the way back to Vancouver. That actually happened. In the Atlantic trucking dispute—the one pipeline that gets product into the Atlantic provinces—we had holes on the shelves in two days. The media reported the lack of meat, the lack of bread and some milk. There were live animals caught in a—
We had the premier's office, the RCMP, and the industry all on a conference call. All those folks tend to say, “Just let it play out”. The trouble is that in two days' time we have consumer panic. So despite best efforts, it very quickly gets out of control.