The industry our organization is a part of has unionized contractors, it has project owners, and it has the workers that we represent. That makes up the industry.
We've had significant pressure and consistent pressure from our non-union competition to compete on the basis of cost. Of course, on a straight-up cost basis, they have an advantage because they're not internalizing the essential costs of training and developing a workforce. When you're starting to compete with now global entities...and in talking to our contracting partners and our business partners who voluntarily enter into workforce agreements with us, they're telling us on a daily basis that global competition is increasing as it is without the existence of TPP chapter 12 provisions. They are exposed to greater global competition in the construction universe.
They already have a difficult time matching that competition on a cost basis because foreign competitors—again going back to the point of having to invest in the Canadian workforce—come in, and they can offer a low-cost option because they don't have to bear the same internalized cost as we do. That obviously puts Canadian workers, Canadian contractors, and Canadian businesses at a disadvantage.