Thank you, Mr. Chair.
As Mr. Cowling said, we must not forget that the bill provides exceptions that allow the use of replacement workers to prevent threats to public health and safety or threats of environmental disasters. In those cases, the use of replacement workers will be legal, which the section as it now stands does not provide.
Several unions, including the steelworkers, told us they were concerned about the possibility that the members of a bargaining unit on strike would not have priority when work resumed. This amendment eliminates the possibility so that the members of a bargaining unit on strike would have priority when work resumed, even over replacement workers used legally to protect public health and safety.