The union votes on a president, their representative, just as the people in your riding vote for you as their representative. Don't you think that it would be important to build those relations and to understand what those employees are dealing with?
A lot has been said about sexual misconduct, and some of the issues that employees within Defence itself and the department deal with as well, not just within the CAF. I'd think that you would want to hear about those issues directly from their main representative, the president of that union.