Mr. Chairman, I will try to be brief enough because, as you said, we have several amendments to look at before 6:30 p.m.
This afternoon, some were talking about people with experience in negotiation. I can tell you that I have been involved in collective bargaining since 1979. Every time we returned to the table after we had reached a goal where we could have a collective agreement and a wage increase had been put forward by the employer, it was fine. But when we returned to the table only to realize that they took some away, it was more often than not that they were negotiating in bad faith.
So, when a government refers the negotiation to an arbitrator without giving us the assurance that they will bring about a collective agreement for our postal workers, I think they are missing the boat. Again they tell us they are not involved in the negotiation. With this motion they show that they are involved in the negotiations and that they do not want Canada Post to give anything to their workers.