Finance committee  Canada Post's estimate is indeed $60 million to $80 million. However, I believe that deregulation is the central component of this part of the bill. By taking away our exclusive privilege, we're enabling businesses to start up in this sector, which is allegedly profitable. These

Finance committee  Yes.

Finance committee  Yes, that's absolutely right. The most important thing for us is the fact that it goes. We have the exclusive privilege, and this exclusive privilege is attacked now. And it's the remailers who are really the first to go around and try, by the back door in some way, to privatize,

Finance committee  Absolutely not; we weren't consulted. We know that this part, which is now included in Bill C-9, existed in other forms in the past. For example, there was Bill C-14 and Bill C-44. However, we were never consulted. We have always tried to be publicly accountable and we've always

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman, committee members. I'll be making my presentation in French. On behalf of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, I want to thank you for the opportunity to appear before this committee on Part 15 of Bill C-9. CUPW represents 54,000 workers in rural and ur

International Trade committee  Briefly, in Colombia, they have official newspapers and they have newspapers in the street. You find out what is going on in the latter. We went to a reserve called La María. It was completely surrounded by the military at the time and a number of the Aboriginal leaders—more than

International Trade committee  No, everybody understands that the people of Colombia, they want peace. Everybody understands that. Everybody understands there's a different group active. I think for us, the most important thing to be okay is that--human rights for people, so that people are not killed with the

International Trade committee  Yes, and you can go in the east part in Venezuela; that's where the paramilitary are. But in other parts of the country, it's the paramilitaries of the other groups who are doing it. So they can be all involved in it. Yes, you are right on that.

International Trade committee  I didn't do that. Look at our paper that we presented about solidarity. We met with every group. We met with workers, we met with aboriginals, we met with the government, we met with human rights, we met with the Polo, we met with the groups--

International Trade committee  In some ways, we didn't see the full thing around the issue. That's one of the points; we really wanted to see it. For us, yes, the issue around wanting to develop a trade agreement with someone is that the commercial part is one side. At some point, when we see that the commerc

International Trade committee  It's not credible. When you talk to the people on the street in Colombia, they're talking about what the DAS is doing, what the Black Eagles are doing. That's what we hear on the street when we talk with people. I think DFAIT has put a cover on everything.

International Trade committee  For us, it is not a race. For us, trade has fundamental principles. The trade must be between equals. This is the basis of all trade, between individuals and between two countries. Trade is not just about what is profitable, not just about business, but about the impacts on peopl

International Trade committee  Knowing Colombia, I would say no. It is the principle. When you get your hands caught in the works, your arm and body are the next to go. It is not logical to put an agreement in place that says that you will clarify what it means after a year. My opinion is that you should go

International Trade committee  At the time, yes, it was the committee's unanimous view.

International Trade committee  Sir, I can address that issue. I think everybody around the table here agrees that one of the most important things, when we're talking about trade, is fair trade. In some ways it depends. Your colleague talked about 213,000 people displaced, but the record is more than 4 million