Thank you, Madam Chair.
Mr. DiCaro, I remember the days when former CAW, now Unifor, was bashed because of the so-called costs of having investment in workers. Now we see ourselves with a massive labour shortage, which hasn't been raised here today. It's a significant one, even for investment. I'd like you to share your opinion on how important that is.
We're going to bring in dental care for Canadians soon. We need pharmacare. How important are those structures when you're negotiating an agreement? How important is it for keeping and retaining trained workers in your workforce when you have employees who are actually paid a living wage? How much less turnover do you have from that, and how much more efficiency and productivity are there?
For years this was always used as a club against the unions, which said it was too costly to keep these workers here and we're losing to Alabama and so forth. At the same time, we still have some of the best retention now. I think that's a clear asset coming into the next wave of a shortage of labour.