Thank you all for being here.
I read my Cape Breton Post this morning and I saw Cliff Murphy's picture front and centre before I had my coffee in me. They just signed a big deal with the construction industry in Nova Scotia.
How have things changed? I remember driving up Route 4 in my riding and there was a big sign along Route 4 saying “Foreigners stealing our jobs”, “Rodger Cuzner is making us stay home here while foreigners are stealing our jobs”, and it had the IBEW stamp on it and the whole nine yards. I recall getting e-mails and phone calls from Fort Mac, where foreign workers would be on site. That maybe had a little bit more to do with CLAC and some of the union stuff.
So here we are today and you're saying that we need these workers, that industry in Canada needs these workers. Could you square it around for me? Is that a change in the philosophy of the trade unions now? What has evolved over the last number of years so that we're on this side of the argument?