We just like to see consistency. I think there was great federal leadership for the Port of Montreal strike that happened just a year prior. There was one day of strike action, and Parliament passed back-to-work legislation and made sure that the port was functioning and that the supply chain across the country wouldn't be disrupted.
We applauded that as a government, knowing that goods would continue to flow—both imports and exports. We were left dismayed, however, by the fact that the west coast's port strike was not treated with the same urgency by the same federal government just a year later. It was left to linger for over a month at Canada's number one and soon-to-be number two largest ports. When I consider the disruptions and the cascading effect that it had across the country for companies turning off shifts, ending shifts and affecting workers all across Canada, in Alberta, B.C., Saskatchewan and Manitoba, it really seems that the company was held hostage by not being able to get products to market.
I think that the urgency was appropriate in Montreal's case, but on the west coast, there were so many question marks as to why the federal government treated it differently.