Mr. Speaker, the Old Port of Montreal's 300 employees have been on strike since Friday, and it is easy to understand why. They are the most poorly paid of all federal employees. Their pay scale starts at $10.67 per hour. That is ridiculous; it is below the poverty line.
Under the NDP's proposal, those employees would earn a federal minimum wage of $15 per hour.
How can this government, which says it wants to help people gain entry into the middle class, justify paying federal employees so poorly?