In many cases, they're not. It's people bringing in real replacement workers to do the work that large numbers of workers normally have. If you're seeing increased lockouts, that's not a decision of workers.
It just strikes me that this demonization of legislation that creates a level playing field makes people forget that labour disputes have two sides. Whenever there's a labour dispute, whether it's a lockout or a strike, I get the feeling that everybody is blaming the workers, as they did in the Vancouver port strike, yet we heard testimony here that a lot of the delays in that negotiation process and the reason it took so long was more a result of the structure of the employer's bargaining process than that of the workers.
I don't want to belabour the point, but I just can't let that lie because I don't know where you're getting that data. If there are more frequent strikes, maybe it's because workers feel that they have those powers. They deserve fair wages. They deserve a safe workplace, and that's what we hear they're going after. I'll leave it there. Mr. Greer made the same point, and I believe that those are simply beliefs that, certainly from the British Columbia experience, are not rooted in fact.
I want to turn to Mr. Whelan on the other side.
You said that one of the big problems was the labour shortage. I'm just wondering if you could elaborate on where that labour shortage is concentrated or what sectors are facing that, and what needs to be done.