Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I'm glad, Mr. Badawey, that you find this discussion a joke as well. Apparently, you don't care about the workers down in Hamilton. Thank you. Thank you very much.
Amendment BQ-5 has the potential to have, and would likely have, a major, major effect on our Canadian economy and a major effect, perhaps, on U.S. relations with Canada. Until we get all the answers we're looking for, I don't see a path forward that's going to work. Quite frankly, I don't see one.
Again, Mr. Chair, I want to talk about the ILWU. Yesterday I was on a phone call with the ILWU. You know, I believe it to be true—and I only believe it to be true; I don't know for sure—that they actually might have reached out to other folks from the other parties as well and asked them to reconsider this. I'm not exactly sure where that landed as of yet, but if you're a friend for labour then you're a friend for labour. You can't be a friend for one side of labour and not a friend for the other side of labour.
In my capacity, I will just suggest, Mr. Chair, that I really believe we've come far too short. The answers have not fallen on the table. We're asking far too much, with no results to date. I think we need to continue to have these discussions. When we get the answers, will it be 250 families who perhaps won't have Christmas presents under the tree, or will it be 350? We don't know that. Until we get the answers, though, we need to know.
If people around the table want to laugh, that's fine, but I'm not laughing. I'm not laughing; I'm darn serious, and I think it's despicable and disgusting that others are.
With that, Mr. Chair, I'll cede the floor.
Thank you.