I'll let my colleague provide further details on the Quebec legislation, but let me make what I think is a fairly important point, and that is reflected in the reality of the Canada Labour Code.
As long as they're related to health and safety, there are of course many more services that are essential at the provincial level than at the federal level because of the nature of the federally regulated sectors. The unique thing about the federally regulated sectors is that they provide a national foundation on which the rest of the economy functions. Their role is not as much about health and safety as it is about the importance of these sectors to the overall Canadian economy, a role that I would argue is somewhat different from the provincial role. The provincial role, of course, relates to economies within a province, whereas the federal role is for sectors that would affect everybody in every province. In that sense, some people have used different terminology for what the federal government does and have said that it is critical, not essential--“essential” being the word used to describe health- and safety-related issues.
So I would suggest that a really important issue in this context is that for an economy that deals with the entire scope of the country--and we're dealing here with economic issues that affect everyone, not just those in one province--there should be some discussion of what role critical services play and how they should be dealt with.