We would anticipate... When we did that on our website... You see, the recruitment process is interesting; what BCMEA has done is... It's mandated fifty-fifty in terms of recruitment by the collective agreement, so for anyone to suggest otherwise is completely inaccurate in terms of whether the BCMEA has done this unilaterally or not. We're bound by collective agreement to do this fifty-fifty. The last time we did a recruitment we posted jobs on our website, and in one day we had 9,000 hits in terms of applications and turned away many more due to the fact that our site was overwhelmed.
When you look at the wages and salaries on the waterfront, where the average longshore person makes $90,000 in wages and an additional 40% in benefits, I would suggest to you, Ma'am, that we will have ample representation amongst that group.
This is in direct opposition to what the ILWU locals do on the Lower Mainland, where they give what is the equivalent of an application form to the union individuals and those people can give these applications to whoever they wish. As you can probably guess, they give them most often--and as proven in these lists that Mr. Dufresne quotes--