Mr. Speaker, all day long no doubt we will see Liberal members trying to be the good guys and trying to take credit for ending the strike.
The reality is that the responsibility for the strike, this whole mess, falls squarely on the shoulders of the government. For seven months it has known that Canada Post and the union were at a stalemate, that their heels were dug in and no one was moving. The arbitrators or conciliators that were sent in told the government the same thing. Did the government do anything? No. It said it would wait and see, which resulted in this strike.
With all this fooling around to get us to a strike and the money it has cost Canadian families and businesses, what does the member say to those who have suffered so much and lost so much money? Would he tell them that the wait and see attitude was a good idea?