Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Archer, I want to start a conversation with you.
I'm the proud father of a union son whose life got immeasurably better when he started working for a company that was unionized, so I agree with everything you say about how unions make working conditions better.
You mentioned the Stellantis battery plant and some of the challenges happening with employment. Yes, unions provide better wages, except when government policy ends up losing union jobs. Then there are no wages, so it's not actually a better wage. Policy has so much of an implication on that.
One of the things I heard is that the lack of unions at the table when those large government investments were negotiated for those plants has led to the conditions where there are, in fact, workers coming from other countries to perform the work that our skilled union members could do. I wonder if you could speak about how your being at the table matters, and whether you raised these concerns with the government.