I'm not here to comment on the belief of the government or the ideology of any one party. I'm here to make the case that there's a cost rationale and a fairness rationale to ensure that any public money that's spent on infrastructure is open to all qualified bidders and their workers.
In construction, it's especially necessary, given that in some jurisdictions only 10% of the industry is unionized. Nowhere is it as high as 30%, except in Quebec. You're shutting out so many of the very people you are elected to represent. They just cannot work on these projects simply because they have made a private decision, in their own private lives, choosing to be union-free.
We think that's unfair.