I'll speak to the statistics; 31% of Ontario's workforce is unionized. At my count, four significant municipalities in Ontario have closed tendering procedures: Toronto, Kitchener-Waterloo, Sault Ste. Marie, and Hamilton, if I remember correctly. That means in those jurisdictions, seven out of 10 Canadians are unfairly excluded from that work, even though they pay their tax dollars into those infrastructure projects.
I think it behooves the federal government that is moving those infrastructure dollars to the municipalities via the provinces, whether or not there needs to be some sort of condition of fairness, to ensure that anyone who is able to fulfill the parameters of the request for that particular type of work, be able to bid on those projects.