Transport committee  Absolutely. It's all in the publication on our website, “How Ottawa Can Deliver a Reformed Canada Post”.

Transport committee  Absolutely, and I can get into more existential questions about the proper way to value the future liabilities, but it's pretty clear that if you look at that pension solvency deficit, that is what they are legally required to fill, and they have received special permission from

Transport committee  That is based on special federal government permission to defer the payments they need to pay to cover that pension solvency deficit.

Transport committee  Thank you very much. Good afternoon. Thank you for inviting me to speak to the committee today. I apologize for not being able to attend in person, and I very much appreciate the willingness of the committee to allow me to attend by video conference. My name is Benjamin Dachis

Finance committee  We can look at evidence in other provinces and at the federal jurisdiction as to, first of all, what you expect to happen and what does happen. What you can expect to happen with an essential services designation is that the costs to the employer of a strike become lower, in the

Finance committee  No.

Finance committee  Compared to the United States, for example, our strike incidence is higher. There's no question.

Finance committee  It's difficult to compare. There's a technical issue in terms of the types of strikes they look at versus the ones we look at in our data. We look at all strikes, whereas they only have data on large strikes. It's very difficult to have that comparison. Our work is as close as y

Finance committee  We've done no work on that, so I have no comment.

Finance committee  Hello and good morning. Thank you very much for inviting me here today to speak to you. My name is Benjamin Dachis. I'm a senior policy analyst at the C.D. Howe Institute. For those who are not aware of us, the C.D. Howe Institute is an independent, not-for-profit organization t