Mr. Speaker, after imposing a lockout that has been going on for 38 months and at a time when everyone thought the labour dispute at the Cargill plant in Baie-Comeau was over, at the last minute, the employer refused to sign the collective agreement.
Will the Prime Minister recognize that, if this grain company had not been authorized under the Canada Labour Code to use strikebreakers, both parties in the dispute would have had real leverage, which would have prevented the conflict from dragging on?