Notwithstanding the only example that Mr. Cuzner brought forward, currently there are five provinces—B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia, and Ontario, I believe—that do have mandatory secret ballot votes. Federally in the United States, the federal jurisdiction, there are mandatory secret ballots when it comes to union certification and decertification. Like I said, in three of those ten provinces in Canada, the vote threshold when a vote is cast is 50% plus one of the workforce.
I put forward that the underlying principle, Mr. Chair, of my bill is the secret ballot vote. I don't hear any ideas for amendments. Nobody proposed any amendments. They simply voted against the opportunity to provide democracy for workers. If there are amendments that somebody wants to bring forward that are reasonable and constructive to the process and make my legislation better, then that's in the hands of this committee to decide, and it's in the hands of the House of Commons to decide after that.
I would certainly welcome constructive changes to the legislation. That's the goal of this, but ultimately, the purpose of the bill is to make that optional secret ballot vote mandatory and give the workers the right to that secret ballot vote to determine what's in their best interest.