Thank you to all of the witnesses for being here today. I'm going to continue on with Mr. Ashton to talk about the bargaining situation that seemed to, as you intimated, take longer because the employers weren't at the table. Instead you had the BCMEA, which, it seems, had no real direct bargaining power from the employers. Everything that you suggested to them they had to take back, and sometimes it took a week or 10 days.
I am just wondering if you could expand on that and talk about how things worked before, because as we heard, before that the last strike in the port of Vancouver was in 1969. I, at least, was alive. I don't know how many other people here were alive in those days. I just give it to you, Mr. Ashton, to talk about the effect that has on bargaining, in terms of the efficiency at the very least.