Perhaps I can just say that in my constituency there's a disconnect between the taxpayer having to pay a bill and two parties negotiating something as important as a labour contract without the actual representative of the person who's paying the bill sitting at the table to see what's going to happen.
Evidence of meeting #123 for Finance in the 41st Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was federal.
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