I believe Bill C-501 is going in the right direction in assisting workers. I speak passionately on it, because as a rep and the president of our local I've unfortunately had to deal with the thousands of members who are facing the problems I've spoken about here today.
Can we do anything politically as a federal government to ensure that they have livelihoods, that their pensions survive, and that they get the severance and termination pay they deserve? That's all in our means to do, and we should do it.
Bill C-501 is a good start, but is there something else we can do? We should be doing that today, because the financial institutions aren't going to loan money today based on the changes of Bill C-501. I say that because it's the economy: in the forest industry, lumber prices are down in the toilet--