Winnipeg will. I'm happy to respond to that.
Yes, stability is desired, and fewer strikes are, generally speaking, better than more, and shorter strikes are better than longer strikes. Nevertheless, no attempt to replace the current strike and lockout option has succeeded in the long run, in my experience in Manitoba. You will be familiar with alternative attempts, such as final-offer selection. Ontario has tried interest arbitration. Anything that changes the balance where a strike or a lockout is mutually distasteful to the parties tends not to work well in the long run.
Listening to the statistics, I am reminded of the old adage that there are lies, damned lies, and statistics. The problem with those statistics is that you don't know what other variables are in there. There would be many reasons for more or fewer work stoppages, so those statistics alone aren't going to tell us anything about the effects of any replacement worker legislation.
The more important question to me—and I am going back again to the statistic quoted by the able presenter on behalf of the United Transportation Union—is that if the rate of strikes federally is around 3%, then what are we trying to fix? It ain't broke.