Yes, good safety. I can see why the government would shy away from that, good safety.
This whole horrendous issue could have been avoided had the government started dealing with it a number of years ago.
No one wants to see a situation where taxpayer dollars are invested and nothing really comes out of it. No one wants to see that. Neither do the miners of Cape Breton. This could have been avoided had there been some planning and work done over the last five years.
I would like to emphasize that those miners had to fight just to get a decent pension. My colleague mentioned the miners having to engage in civil disobedience, closing down the mine for a few days in order to get the government to at least come up with a decent pension. Canadians should be getting used to this now with this government.
The women of the federal civil service had to fight for pay equity for 15 years. They had to literally pull the government, kicking and screaming, into the new millennium. It took that long to get the government to pay what was owed.
The merchant marines had to fight for their pension. How long did it take? It has taken the three years I have been here just to have the government give them a decent pension, after all those years.