Transport committee  I'm not an expert.

Transport committee  It wouldn't be the perfect solution, but it would be very adequate, along with an exclusion of PLAs.

Transport committee  That's by the city. The Toronto projects are owned by Metrolinx.

Transport committee  Those are going to be open tenders, correct.

Transport committee  Yes.

Transport committee  Where did you get that possibly from?

Transport committee  Well, I talked to Metrolinx about a month ago at a TTC meeting and they said the exact opposite. They are getting a great deal of cooperation on their projects in hiring local Toronto workers from underprivileged neighbourhoods.

Transport committee  I will ask you to get my contact information—

Transport committee  You give me that information.

Transport committee  I'll try to take care of it for you, because I know a lot of those contractors and they're very concerned that they're doing exactly the right thing, including hiring adults as apprentices from underprivileged neighbourhoods, as they were asked to do.

Transport committee  Very much so.

Transport committee  You have to meet both safety and quality, and productivity criteria to pre-qualify on most public projects.

Transport committee  If you want me to get you some, I'll gladly do it.

Transport committee  Sure. But the bigger thing is, something probably everybody knows about is the “big dig” in Boston, the most disastrous, publicly financed infrastructure project in North America. That was a project labour agreement. At the end of it, they had to come up with $500 million, basica

Transport committee  That's what the charter says. Government cannot discriminate against employment in the private sector based on union affiliation. I get a great deal of solace from reading that, and hopefully it will one day be true. For years I've been a supporter of the City of Toronto fair wag