Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Minister, in the last three months, you've taken the unprecedented step of twice using section 107 of the Canada Labour Code to ask the Canada Industrial Relations Board to effectively take away from workers the right to strike, so they had to resume their duties. That's unprecedented in the history of the country. It's been universally condemned by labour unions. In fact, Frank Morena, in an email to me, asked why the government should do the dirty work of bad employers.
There is also an issue with respect to a long-standing strike that's been going on in Kanata. I asked you a question about it in question period and I've reached out to the union since question period, and it's said a couple of things. One is that the members and the local have still not heard anything from Minister MacKinnon. The other is that their union members are holding out hope that labour laws are not just for big companies and corporations, and that the help comes before their members and families are completely financially ruined.
That Unifor local has asked you to intervene. What I find really hard to understand is that when unions are asking you not to intervene, you intervene. However, when a union is actually asking you to intervene because we have an employer that is effectively union-busting and trying to break this union—this union took the unprecedented step of asking you to intervene—it hears crickets from you.
You intervene when unions don't want it, and you won't intervene when they want it. How can you rationalize this decision?