Transport committee  It is the Canadian system that has been extant since P.C.—

Transport committee  No, it's the Canadian system that has been extant since—

Transport committee  It is the Canadian system that has been extant since P.C. 1003 was enacted in the year 1944. It is a system that has been perpetuated through various Ontario labour relations acts up to the present.

Transport committee  We support competition. We engage in competition. In the case of the City of Hamilton, having made itself a construction employer under the provisions of the act, it's bound by its collective agreement to contract in accordance with the act—for carpenters only.

Transport committee  Firstly, what you're calling a labour monopoly is a certificate awarded by the Ontario Labour Relations Board, which certifies an employer for a unit of employees. There aren't one or two of these. There are thousands, literally tens of thousands of them. They certify grocery sto

Transport committee  They give a right to bargain to the union.

Transport committee  In this case the union is.... Under the designation system in the Province of Ontario, the employer is represented by the employer bargaining agency. The employer bargaining agency comes up with a collective agreement. The collective agreement has a clause.

Transport committee  First of all, it's not a labour monopoly. Second of all, certification, whether it's in Hamilton, or Toronto, or Kalamazoo, gives the union certain rights that flow from the Labour Relations Act. If one of those rights is the right to bargain with the employer, they can then make

Transport committee  No problem.

Transport committee  All right.

Transport committee  Yes, there are management open site agreements. Those generally tend to be owner preference based on their theory of risk management. It is all about managing the risk. There are as significant a number of Christian Labour Association project labour agreements as there are ours.

Transport committee  On the issue of the project labour agreement—

Transport committee  If I could conclude, Mr. Miller told you about his lawsuit. We have defended the lawsuit. It is being vigorously opposed. I think something is supposed to happen this month, as the matter progresses. One day the Supreme Court of Canada will give us its verdict of whether project

Transport committee  Yes, sir, that is exactly correct.

Transport committee  Carve-outs, no. They get priority placement.