Transport committee  That's an interesting point. If you look at the owners who have specified local hire, you will see that they are generally looking at local hire or aboriginal hire because they're going to be in the location for a very long time. If you say to the people who are building Muskrat

Transport committee  No. These are construction employees—

Transport committee  —who are being hired for the construction project and the construction term. But once the job is over, they will be trained people who will be in situ. The owner will go out and generally try to hire the best they can find, so that they're meeting their own resources. Plus, Nalco

Transport committee  No. I got two issues out of reading the transcript. One is that project labour agreements are pernicious and ought not to be allowed. The other is that all tendering should be open tender without qualification. Mr. Miller was the only person who has ever said, “contractors who ar

Transport committee  Yes, ma'am, I am.

Transport committee  Ninety-five percent of Canada's contractors employ fewer than 10 people.

Transport committee  I would say in the city of Toronto probably 85% of construction is done by the unions, whether the workers are unionized through LIUNA Local 183, or they are in the residential sector, or they are doing industrial work or commercial or institutional work.

Transport committee  No, no. I'm talking about the whole schmear.

Transport committee  Unionized contractors do almost all of the institutional stuff.

Transport committee  The answer to that is yes. There are a couple of large contractors in the Toronto area who have a relationship with the Christian Labour Association. They manage to find work too, and they seem to manage to get bigger, so the market seems to be able to tolerate all—

Transport committee  The short answer is yes.

Transport committee  Give me about another 30 seconds and I'll shut up. How's that?

Transport committee  There was a good study done in the year 2009 by a guy named Tom Bedford at the University of Toronto, which talks about analysis of low-bid award systems in public construction. I'll send you the article. He finds that clients who don't use pre-qualification of contractors for la

Transport committee  Thank you. Throughout these entire hearings I'm the only representative from the organized sector that's been here so I might ask for a little of your indulgence. There are a number of things that have been stated in some of the previous hearings that may require either some cor

Transport committee  Yes.