Mr. Chairman, I would like of course to correct somewhat the comments made by the hon. member for Richelieu. Given his experience, the member should not make statements which I would call gratuitous.
I never said that I wanted to make the union look bad. At the time I met the Canadian Direct Marketing Association, I also met the union leaders. I told them clearly that I recognized their right to strike. In fact, the member should realize that, for the first time in the history of the Canada Post Corporation, we have a strike with no violence on the picket lines.