Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague for her question.
Our respective ridings are located in rural areas. There are many postal workers with rural routes in my riding.
Earlier, someone talked about a Canada Post employee in the gallery who said that she worked 14 hours but was only paid for six. That is the type of inequity that postal workers are currently facing. That is what the union is trying to remedy through the bargaining process.
Why is Canada Post refusing to recognize that making its workers work eight extra hours without any pay is a problem?
The government wants to force unionized employees to go back to their old collective agreement, which would mean an estimated 250,000 hours of work between now and Christmas, not between now and next year. Those hours will be worked by employees in rural areas, and they will not be paid for them. That is the reality that the Liberals are imposing on us, in collusion with Canada Post. All of this is being done against the wishes of workers.