Mr. Chairman, I would like to draw the debate back to the bill before us. We are here today to pass legislation, back to work legislation restoring appropriate labour-management relations, as quickly as possible.
There are two requirements: that the act be the best possible and that it be passed as soon as possible. Those are the objectives and criteria applicable.
To have two objectives like these requires that the best possible conditions be provided for in this bill. When we ask that the management negotiation proposal be what appears in the legislation, it is no secret, it does not take a rocket scientist to understand why.
Mr. St-Julien should understand this concept. It is the management proposal, the very proposal made by management, that we have put forward in our amendment. I listened to the hon. member for Abitibi earlier and put up with what he had to say. He said among other things that those selected to represent the unions, because they have been in the same position since 1981, are not the right people to do the job.