Mr. Speaker, Nortel workers now have a gun to their heads. A judge ruled the February deal on extending health and disability benefits could not be approved because a clause would allow pensioners to argue for a higher priority if the government changed bankruptcy laws.
Nearly 20,000 pensioners have three days to decide whether to accept the deal without the protection of future legislative changes or lose everything.
Will the minister act immediately and use the NDP bill, Bill C-501, to change these unjust bankruptcy laws now?