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OTTAWA — A Senate committee is recommending that Ottawa take bold action including binding arbitration to ensure that labour disputes no longer disrupt Canadian supply chains, steps that would mark fundamental changes to labour relations in two critical sectors. In a new report released Thursday, the Senate Committee on Transport and Communications concluded that the federal government needs to make aggressive changes to the labour laws that govern the rail and marine industries so that there are more alternatives to strikes and lockouts. With a number of collective agreements in the...