Thanks, Mr. Chair.
Welcome to the witnesses today.
Ms. Abou-Dib, sometimes governments are elected and they don't have the best interests of workers at heart. We saw that with Bill C-377 in the Harper government, and we've seen that recently in the province of Ontario, where the premier capped wages at 1%, which went to court and was deemed unconstitutional.
You referenced the provinces. I'm not asking you to talk about the politics of this, but one thing I've asked witnesses about is the fact that when this legislation is passed, it will be added to a list that has laws from Quebec and British Columbia, and will probably go a long way to helping the union movement by implementing the same kind of legislation in other provinces where there currently is no protection for workers.
Can you comment on the importance of what this legislation will do to assist the movement in provinces where at present there might be push-back the other way in violation of workers' rights, as we've seen with Ontario's wage cap?