Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I would echo some of what Mr. Silva said. It would seem to me that some flexibility in the definition of essential services, some openness to interpretation, is actually a good thing for business. When you list things, it's the things that are excluded that become problematic.
Ms. Yelich referred to the question I asked in QP today about productivity and competitiveness. I just want to be clear that I was referring to the gutting of literacy and the unconscionable cutting of student support in that case. It wasn't on this; it was a different issue.
To me, the essential services provision in this bill would allow things like telecommunications services to continue, because it's not just health and safety. Communicating, getting money from a bank machine--those are essential services in the modern day and age. I'm comfortable with Mr. Silva's enlightened amendment, and I hope that it's ruled in order.
Thank you, Mr. Chair.