Mr. Chairman, as indicated in my brief, under the Canada Labour Code, in the instance that a proposed agreement is voted on and rejected, it can be considered a strike vote. That's what occurred, and so be it. At the same time, there are other checks and balances in the system, as I also wanted to point out.
In terms of the strike vote, there is another point we're trying to put across here when we're dealing with our aboriginal employees, and I'd like to ask Mr. Zoe to respond to that a little bit. Was there a genuine understanding by the employees of what they were doing when they voted to reject that offer, and did they understand that it meant they were going to be going on strike? That level of understanding of what is actually at stake can be difficult for a group of people who have never had experience before in dealing with unions in these kinds of situations.
I would like to ask Mr. Zoe to respond to that.