I'd like to follow up on that, because that is an area in which I feel the government has struck the right balance.
Mr. Merrifield, you talked about the RCMP and their important role as a paramilitary organization. I think there are certainly problems.... If discipline, operational matters, postings—all of the unique nature of our federal police service, which I'm very proud of—should not be part of collective bargaining, essentially you don't have a chain of command, and you can't be the unique force that you are.
Not that I'm trying to help these guys too much, but Bill C-7 tries to get the balance right. That's my point of view. I don't want to see a unionized military. I don't think you would have thought it would work well when you were in rotary-wing.
I'm going to devote what little time I have to what Mr. Sauvé focused on very well, which is the potential lack of a high standard with clauses 40 and 42.
While I was veterans affairs minister, as someone in the crowd knows here today, I made sure that the veterans association was part of my direct stakeholder advisory group, and I was inclined to the solution you discussed in terms of using the expertise at VAC.
A key concern is whether you have been able to identify provinces in which the standards for workers compensation are not at levels that you feel are sufficient for the RCMP.