I'll be honest with you, it was a Liberal government that brought it in, but I'll be fair to everybody. It was not really meant to be what happened, but an entire industry evolved around how we can just avoid making a--the dirty word is “prescriptive”--rule. We can just trust companies. If we've learned something from the United States, considering the millions of people who are going to lose their jobs, I'd say that pendulum has swung, and it should swing.
At the same time, I don't think Teamsters Canada wants to go back to the old days of complete regulation. That's why we brought forward that one amendment last time, and we sure hope you look at it again.
The backrooms understand that there is going to be a public view of the regulation, that it just doesn't go into the Canada Gazette part II and disappear into space. For example, with the hours of service, we found that when the public and politicians looked at it, the backrooms were a lot more careful with what they did.
I will tell you I have more faith in the TDG regulations because of the collegial model that we have. I think Louis is still the chair--and I'm not saying it's because he's the chair, but we're friends--and it's a much more collegial manner. We have also brought up suggestions in more areas, as in security. Also, in our paper we congratulated the government on the rail advisory council, where they ensured that the Teamsters and other unions were full participants.
The one lesson I have from the TDGA is that if this were applied to other areas, where more players were in the room and less parochial interests were looked at, we'd have better rules.