First of all, I would like to point out in fact that our industry, the courier industry, has a remarkably good labour relations record. To the best of my knowledge, in the last two decades there has been one day of a strike at one company, which is quite a record. We believe in treating our workers well and in working with them.
The particular concern that I have expressed today is the domino effect of a strike in some other sector. I use the example of the auto sector. There are many small components that cross the U.S.-Canada border as many as seven times, going backwards and forwards until the final product is finished, with small components being added to something on an assembly line and shipped back across the border—and backwards and forwards they go. You would close down a tremendous amount of the Canadian auto sector if you were to block the ports, for example.
There are all kinds of examples with health care. I've shown in great detail here list after list of health and diagnostic products that are shipped by our couriers on a daily basis. Let us say that due to a strike an airport were to lose its safety operating certificate; if they did not have the right safety measures in place, the correct and natural effect would be for them to lose their safety operating certificate. That would close down the courier business. There are tremendous numbers of businesses in Canada that depend on next-day delivery of small packages; that's their inventory. Let's say we have a factory that has a broken machine part and they have to repair it. Who do they look to? They look to the courier industry to move these parts.
This is the danger, as millions of workers could potentially be affected by a strike in some other sector.
We doubt we're going to have strikes, though you can never tell. We believe that with our record of very good labour relationships, it's not going to happen in our industry. It's the bump-on effects.