Mr. Speaker, I do indeed share my Quebec colleague's concerns and apprehensions.
In fact, even though there has not yet been any speech or bill that shows us that the right to strike is being attacked, the repeated use of back-to-work legislation amounts to successive attacks against the exercise of this right. In the Conservatives’ view, the right to strike only applies if it does not disturb anyone. That is not how pressure tactics work. Of course people are disturbed, just as people are disturbed during a lockout, which deprives workers of their wages and their income. What exists between employers and unions is a balance of power.
Now, we have the impression that every time workers governed by the Canada Labour Code attempt to exercise their right, the Conservative government is there to take it away from them. We find this unacceptable. That is not how you treat people.