Human Resources committee  Absolutely not, but I do appreciate the fact that you recognize there are special skill sets out there. Not everybody can do everybody's job. In answer to the question, no, the fairness is not there, because the employer.... If you say to the unions, the workers, that they have

Human Resources committee  If I may, Ms. Yelich, just so you know, a lot of our members are farmers and we have always gone to bat for the farming community in western Canada and eastern Canada. We don't leave the farmers hanging out there to dry. We understand the comments about captive shippers. We know

Human Resources committee  Do you mean strikebound workers?

Human Resources committee  I think you'd have a problem with the ILO, to start with, because I'd certainly make sure they were coming after you. Absolutely not. That's insane. How do you restrict somebody from having the right to go on strike? You enshrine it in the legislation, and then you tell them tha

Human Resources committee  On February 9, yes.

Human Resources committee  The ninth is the strike deadline.

Human Resources committee  Well, no; perhaps it's just a phrasing of the question, but you're right, we would be a part--

Human Resources committee  If there is a strike, absolutely, somebody's going to be adversely affected somewhere, no question. And you were right in the example you gave: the movement of Canadian wheat this winter could possibly be affected. Do we have a concern about those farmers? Absolutely. But we have

Human Resources committee  No, it's between this committee and that employer as well, because you're asking me the question and trying to hold my union accountable for the actions of a strike that we have the right to exercise under the code. But it doesn't appear that CN will be held to the same level of

Human Resources committee  But that's the economic pressure the union relies on. The only thing they can do when they go on strike is to force some kind of economic pressure on the employer, in this case, CN. Where would they feel it from? They'd feel the pinch coming from those farmers who are saying “Wha

Human Resources committee  As long as the chair recognizes that these comments are hypothetical, of course. You're right, the issues that Mr. Bell has raised are really important, especially to his operation and the people who rely on that service. What I think people are forgetting is that section 87.4 i

Human Resources committee  The difficulty in answering your question, Ms. Dhalla, is that almost 100% of our members are in federal jurisdictions, regardless of the province in which they work. They work for Canadian National, for example, and the contract would be coast to coast. So I guess the short answ

Human Resources committee  First of all, you mentioned he was speaking to my members.

Human Resources committee  Former? That's probably why he's a former member, because he said silly things like that. That's probably why he's not a member today. Honestly, Mr. Lake, I don't know what to say. Quite frankly, I'd think he's out of touch with reality. We've got a serious imbalance in this cod

Human Resources committee  Madame Lavallée, the reason for the proposal is initially that the code requires that the parties, before they start to bargain collectively, have to address the issue of the maintenance of activities agreement. As I stated before, we attempted to do that with the employer prior