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Human Resources committee Historically, they've not been the same, and the degree of disparity between them varies from one profession to the next. Hence, you have this program that the federal government has launched to deal with it. But yes, that's a fair comment.
October 18th, 2011Committee meeting
Rob Walsh
Human Resources committee That same sort of argument is being made now by people who believe there should be a federal stock exchange. There is always a school of thought when difficulties arise between provinces in any given field that counsels avoiding all that and establishing one regulating authority
October 18th, 2011Committee meeting
Rob Walsh
Human Resources committee As you know, Mr. Chairman, hypotheticals are hazardous, but shipping is a federal area of jurisdiction for legislation purposes, and that vessel in Canadian offshore waters and doing business within Canada's jurisdiction would be subject to federal regulation. If it washes up on
October 18th, 2011Committee meeting
Rob Walsh
Human Resources committee I am not in detail, no.
October 18th, 2011Committee meeting
Rob Walsh
Human Resources committee The key word here is “agreement”. You'd have to negotiate the insertion of these clauses into that agreement, which means you would have to have the consent of the province to make those considerations part of the agreement.
October 18th, 2011Committee meeting
Rob Walsh
Human Resources committee Yes and no. There are complications with it. Let's take my own field as a lawyer. Lawyers are provincially regulated. There is no federal bar that would approve my standing as a lawyer. The federal government hires lawyers, and they require the lawyers to be recognized and regi
October 18th, 2011Committee meeting
Rob Walsh
Human Resources committee Yes, I would. I think the option available to the federal government is to do as you suggest, exercising what you call moral suasion, that is, trying to convince the provincial authorities that it's in their interest as much as in the federal government's interest to assist these
October 18th, 2011Committee meeting
Rob Walsh
Human Resources committee That's correct.
October 18th, 2011Committee meeting
Rob Walsh
Human Resources committee “Even” might be one way of putting it. I think the program would ideally like to see one set of standards across the country, which by definition would be “even”. But that paragraph is dealing with the right under the Charter of Rights to be able to move to and live in any part o
October 18th, 2011Committee meeting
Rob Walsh
Human Resources committee It's the spending power. It's in effect the federal government using its control over the public purse at the federal level to assist the provinces, in this case in the field of education. I suppose the intent is to ensure the level of education, in terms of the institutions and
October 18th, 2011Committee meeting
Rob Walsh
Human Resources committee The necessarily incidental concept applies to legislative powers. All that means to say is that the federal government can exercise legislative powers in a provincial area of jurisdiction where it is on a matter that is necessarily incidental to some area of jurisdiction they alr
October 18th, 2011Committee meeting
Rob Walsh
Human Resources committee Semantically, international would include Canada; foreign wouldn't include Canada. That's one distinction. The use of the word “international” is sometimes there when you want to talk about a plan that applies to a large number of countries, so it has acceptance at the internatio
October 18th, 2011Committee meeting
Rob Walsh
Human Resources committee It's a pleasure to be here.
October 18th, 2011Committee meeting
Rob Walsh
Human Resources committee It's a complicated matter, which I don't think will assist you in what you're doing here. You're talking about section 93, on education. It does go to the question of, historically, there being separate schools in Ontario—Catholic schools—and it provides that those rights will
October 18th, 2011Committee meeting
Rob Walsh
Human Resources committee With reference to this particular program, my understanding is that it's an attempt by the federal government to, as it were, facilitate the process: to help the provinces and territories find common ground regarding what accreditation you need to be a doctor or a mechanic, or wh
October 18th, 2011Committee meeting
Rob Walsh