Human Resources committee  Our feedback is based on the slide presentation that we provided to the committee today. We have surveyed our members on this issue in the past, and there is a high level of support. I would also add that it's not just our members. In terms of Canadians in general, those who have been unionized or are unionized, there doesn't seem to be any disagreement among any of those segments that there should be a secret ballot vote in place.

Human Resources committee  It would not, no.

Human Resources committee  We have 109,000.

Human Resources committee  That's correct.

Human Resources committee  To be clear, a total of about 15,000 responses came in. Of those 15,000, 76% were in support.

Human Resources committee  Yes.

Human Resources committee  Thank you, sir. I want to set this up because I think this issue really shouldn't be too controversial in that when you ask Canadians for their preferences when it comes to unions in general, it seems they have pretty strong opinions about not being part of a union, and more importantly, those who have been formerly unionized also don't think too highly of being unionized.

Human Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. On behalf of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business and our 109,000 small and mid-sized members across the country, we thank the committee for allowing us to speak to Bill C-525 this morning. Just by way of background, we at CFIB are a membership that is 100% voluntary.