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International Trade committee We've had critiques of all the trade agreements that have come up.
March 4th, 2014Committee meeting
Graham Cox
International Trade committee No, we haven't supported any.
March 4th, 2014Committee meeting
Graham Cox
International Trade committee On the direct threat of lawsuits, well, in my understanding the municipalities and the provinces, under the language that we've seen, won't be subject to direct lawsuits. It's the Government of Canada. This is similar to NAFTA. It's the fact that the municipalities and the provin
March 4th, 2014Committee meeting
Graham Cox
International Trade committee No, without the final text, I don't think that's an easy thing to do. Certainly, we haven't looked at that. Certainly the services in energy and waste-water management are things we're looking at as being threatened. We feel that any privatized service would be under threat of no
March 4th, 2014Committee meeting
Graham Cox
International Trade committee I can certainly get that wording for you. I don't have it in front of me.
March 4th, 2014Committee meeting
Graham Cox
March 4th, 2014Committee meeting
Graham Cox
International Trade committee No, it was a vote of the membership by hands.
March 4th, 2014Committee meeting
Graham Cox
International Trade committee Yes. It's by voting cards. That is the convention that our membership is voted on.
March 4th, 2014Committee meeting
Graham Cox
International Trade committee I think it depends on the local, but if my memory serves me correctly, at CUPE it is a secret ballot for votes on collective bargaining.
March 4th, 2014Committee meeting
Graham Cox
March 4th, 2014Committee meeting
Graham Cox
International Trade committee For collective bargaining, yes.
March 4th, 2014Committee meeting
Graham Cox
International Trade committee The provisions within the agreement that are put on the table come from engagement with the membership and so forth. There are certainly situations where negotiations happen behind closed doors, if that's the language you like to use, but they certainly don't get voted on behin
March 4th, 2014Committee meeting
Graham Cox
International Trade committee It's not like free trade agreements that basically get signed behind closed doors, or have limited aspects.... There's also a situation where the interests of the members are represented from the beginning. There's a consultation process before that negotiation happens. Similar
March 4th, 2014Committee meeting
Graham Cox
International Trade committee That's not done in Canada.
March 4th, 2014Committee meeting
Graham Cox
International Trade committee That's the trade [Inaudible — Editor]
March 4th, 2014Committee meeting
Graham Cox