Mr. Speaker, I want to pay my respects to the member for the experience he provides as a negotiator on the union side.
It is very sad what we have to address today, because there is no winner. The hon. member talks about how the Montreal Port Authority would be on the winning side, but there is no winner. A special law is anything but a win, but we have to address it.
I think about the thousands of people, union people, who are working in different shops in Quebec, in Ontario and from coast to coast who need their products to be offshore, and they also need products coming from the port in order to create wealth here in Canada. Yes, we are very seriously thinking about the 1,150 union workers who are on strike right now, but we are also thinking of the thousands of people who are working in many shops around the country and who are involved, by accident, in this situation.