Mr. Speaker, if I might be allowed to clarify the hon. member's assertions, we appointed Mr. Allan Hope as the conciliation commissioner, not Mr. Paul Fraser. Mr. Hope has
already submitted his conciliation report which I received just last week.
We are presently reviewing it. It is going forward for translation. I expect to be able to table that report sometime next week at which time I hope it will provide the basis for a good negotiated settlement between the parties. I would not engage, as the hon. member seems to do, in prophesying a strike. I think the report can provide the basis for an agreement.