Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you very much for your information and data. I love data, so I'm really excited to ask some questions, to see if I can parse some more numbers or if you've done some more number-parsing on this.
I firmly believe that unions make good jobs great. I watched it happen when my son worked in a non-unionized environment in the construction industry, and then he moved to being in a union, and his wages, treatment and safety on the job went up—everything a father could ask for.
My concern is that in certain parts of Canada, we have seen significant declines in unionization rates, so I wonder if we can try to peel the onion a bit on that.
For example, in British Columbia—and I have a chart—in 1981 the unionization rate was 43%, and in 2022 it was 28%. Since 2018 there have been 9,000 job losses in the forestry sector in B.C.; virtually all of those would be unionized jobs, all of it as a result of the government's failure to get the softwood lumber dispute resolved.
Do you have any data to track, by sector, the loss of union jobs? To me, when I look at British Columbia, it looks like a huge number of these job losses and unionization losses are as a result of the loss of jobs in that industry.