Thank you.
The amendment that we're proposing is not about bringing in replacement workers. As we heard from Mr. Carey, you can't just take someone and tell them to run a train. You just can't take somebody off the street and put them to work repairing telecommunications services. It's about making sure that employees in the telecom industry have the ability that is required if there is a natural disaster or if networks go down and people need the network for health care or education or for work or for 911. If people need access to these essential services, we need to have the opportunity to keep them up and running.
While yes, we said that we're against the bill, if the bill is going to go ahead, as we're hearing from all parties, then we think it is vitally important that we have amendments in place to ensure the continuity of telecommunication systems in the event of an outage.