Mr. Speaker, I am very pleased the initiation of the hon. minister to this House has been in answer to a question, but it was no answer, it was another approach.
Since the 1950s the federal government used back to work legislation as the last resort in transportation related labour disputes. Each time it had significant costs to the Canadian economy as a whole.
When will the ministry acknowledge that neither back to work legislation nor anti-scab legislation adequately protects the
economy from bitter transportation strikes and when will she seek effective impartial alternatives like binding final arbitration as a position?