It's just the right thing to do.
Mr. Buda, you can chip in here. If someone has a view on doing the right thing.... Now, maybe I'm wrong, but it strikes me that whether I'm a union worker—and I have belonged to unions in the past in my part-time jobs as a kid growing up. When I worked full-time I did not work in a union environment. By the way, these are good, decent people whether they work in a union or don't work in a union; I don't particularly care.
But do you have a personal view? You already said earlier that your bosses are who they are, and I get that. Let's forget even the personal view. At what point do you—or do municipalities, more fairly—have the right to say to a person, even if they're legally allowed to do so through their provincial regulations, and I understand that as well, that just because of their union or non-union status that person does not have the right to work with you?
You'll notice that I haven't touched on any financial issues here. I'm just talking about the decent and right thing to do.
Let's even forget the words “moral imperative”. Those are big words. Let's just talk about the right thing to do, and tell me why you as a senior policy adviser to FCM wouldn't come back and say to these folks, “Sometimes we just have to do the right thing”?
Help me get that part, because I just don't.