Mr. Speaker, I congratulate my hon. colleague for his presentation but I want to ask a question. In Saint John, New Brunswick, as I was leaving to fly to Ottawa this week, one of the men who had been working at Air Canada for 23 years received his notice that he was being laid off. He needed a little more time to get his retirement pension.
When we are bringing in legislation and talking about things like this we must somehow have protection for people like him. That must be part and parcel of the legislation.
I then went to the ticket agent who had been there long before I started flying to Ottawa. She got her notice that day.
This is what is happening. Many people are being hurt right now. We gave the airline $160 million and it went out and bought another carrier instead of looking after those employees. How does my hon. colleague feel about this?