Mr. Speaker, I listened with interest to my colleague speak to the issues that are before us tonight. One thing she avoided mentioning was the amazing cost to the economy of this ongoing strike. We talk about it in terms of the weekly cost of roughly $0.5 billion to the economy, but more important is the local cost to our ridings. I have heard from people in my area who have indicated that unless they are able to bring raw materials into their company within a few days, their company is in jeopardy and the jobs of the people that the company employs are in jeopardy.
Does my colleague not care that if this strike continues there would be many more hundreds of people, or probably tens of thousands of people, out of work?