Fundamentally, very few labour disputes end up in strikes or lockouts. Let's put it this way: I think that the record in Canada has been getting better and better over the last 10 years. For the most part, in all jurisdictions, employers, employees, and unions are finding better solutions to problems.
A big factor influencing the ability of labour and management to work together effectively is low inflation. When you're in a low inflationary environment, you don't get the same kind of pressures on wage and benefits negotiations that you might in a economy in which inflation is quite high. That goes a long way to improving the relationship, and I think it has had a lot to do with the lessening of the number of labour disputes that we've had in Canada over the last number of years—as contrasted with the seventies and the eighties, for example.