Human Resources committee  I think you've got to separate these things. There is confusion between labour relations and this particular act. Labour relations at Toyota may vary from country to country and from place to place. Many of their plants are unionized. I don't believe Toyota sits down and makes a

Human Resources committee  Those investments were made under Bob Rae as well.

Human Resources committee  The only information I have is that it was their past practice. Also, investments were made under Bob Rae.

Human Resources committee  On the question of permanent employees or part-time employees, there is no doubt a trend across the board, whatever province you're in, to try to get just-in-time workers. Now we have foreign workers coming here into very precarious situations, and that's a problem with our code.

Human Resources committee  I have very little further comment. The fundamental difference I see is that under the provincial one, the problems with existing employees are now compounded by the fact that we have 40,000 foreign workers coming to work in our country who don't have the same rights as anybody e

Human Resources committee  That's speculation at the best of times. If he had settled with his union and made the agreement first, he wouldn't be out of business either. We're all speculating here. There are a lot of things that go into the decision of a company to go bankrupt or not. The vast majority of

Human Resources committee  The dispute with Telus workers in British Columbia and Alberta was a classic example of a massive wholesale scabbing operation to undercut workers' rights. The collective agreement they finally signed under the circumstances was a huge step backwards. We lost thousands of full-ti

Human Resources committee  Read it in French--I wish, sister, I wish. Subsection 94(2.4): The measures referred to in subsection (2.2) shall exclusively be conservation measures and not measures to allow the continuation of the production of goods or services otherwise prohibited by subsection (2.1).

Human Resources committee  Let me just look, two seconds, hang on. I can't find that part. Can you help me here? Where is it?

Human Resources committee  No, no, I wouldn't want to get this wrong. Let me do that again. Subsection 94(2.3), right?

Human Resources committee  Yes.

Human Resources committee  You want me to read it into the record?

Human Resources committee  Do you have trouble with it? You can't read it yourself into the record?

Human Resources committee  Thank you. I want to reiterate that I think for mature labour relations to take place, there has to be a level playing field, and this provides some of that. What I was going to say was that the difference in the legislation as I understand it.... I'm no lawyer or legal expert

Human Resources committee  I can respond from labour's point of view, if you want. The fundamental difference is that during a labour dispute in British Columbia, if you were employed by the employer prior to the commencement of collective bargaining, you can walk across the picket line legally. That's the