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Mr. Chairperson , we are very concerned that the detail contained in the amendments to this bill , which are in some cases housekeeping , probably about three-quarters of them would be termed housekeeping amendments , but a good quarter of them are very substantive amendments . I support the motion for an additional reason , besides what the minister has stated and what Mr. Benson stated in his dissenting report , and that is at some point in a jurisdiction like Manitoba where you are going to increase the rate of remuneration paid to anybody , even an independent judiciary , to a degree which is perceived to be unfair and out of step with other players and essential players in a democracy , whether it be professors who claim , and rightly so , academic freedom , whether it be teachers who claim they need respect and they need a sense of worth to be able to teach properly , all of these being fundamental parts of democracy , but if you are out of step with what is perceived generally to be fair , you can bring disrepute on the very institution and the very freedom that you stand for. The faith of the dead , if it is to live , must take root in the minds and hearts of those who receive it . Do you think that for one moment , Mr. Chair , that I would bother going through all these various amendments to punish the trade unions when the simplest thing that this party could do is simply abolish the Rand Formula and have the unions go cap in hand to their members to collect their union dues , like it was before 1976 , and the way that Mr. Sid Green suggested it should be , before he brought in Rand Formula in this province , something he admits was a mistake ? So there would be a very limited number of circumstances where that would arise .