Human Resources committee  As I've said, we will administer whatever law Parliament sees fit to give us. If that includes a secret ballot vote, then we will.

Human Resources committee  Not ordinarily. Those are all matters that are governed by the unions' internal constitution. There is one circumstance in which we may conduct a vote, and there's a provision in the code for a vote on an employer's last offer. The minister can direct us to conduct those votes.

Human Resources committee  Yes. It would be our intention, if we have to hold a secret ballot vote in every case, to amend our procedures so that we can do them much more quickly than we currently do. The reason we can take the time we need to now is that we make the determination based on support as of t

Human Resources committee  Are you asking me to answer that?

Human Resources committee  In our opinion, it is working well. With the board having the discretion to decide when a vote must be held, it works.

Human Resources committee  As I have already indicated, a system such as the one in the bill can lead to problematic situations.

Human Resources committee  I believe the committee heard on Tuesday from both labour and management. I think those are the views that the committee should take into consideration.

Human Resources committee  We heard the same concerns from our constituency, labour and management, that this committee heard on Tuesday. So we've heard the same thing you have. Currently the board uses secret ballot votes when it's appropriate. We use our discretion to do it when we need to. One other t

Human Resources committee  We have the three types that you mentioned, the in-person, the mail ballot, and the electronic vote. On page 5 of our paper we've given you the statistics for the last four and three-quarter years. In person tends to be our default, unless there's a reason to go to a mail ballot

Human Resources committee  Four were upheld against employers. There were 23 cases where allegations were made. Four were found to have merit against employers and two against the unions. With the unions, it was an inter-union rivalry situation in both cases.

Human Resources committee  It depends on your definition of a mountain.

Human Resources committee  As our paper indicates, we currently hold representation votes in about 18% to 20% of the cases that come before us. If we had to hold representation votes in 100% of the cases, that would quintuple our workload. We estimate we would require three more industrial relations office

Human Resources committee  Currently we haven't.

Human Resources committee  I think the jurisprudence and the statistics speak for themselves.

Human Resources committee  The board will administer whatever law Parliament sees fit to give us to administer.