Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Welcome, Minister.
I have three topics I would like to get answers about. I'll present them as succinctly as I can and hope you will answer as succinctly as possible.
The first one is this project review of the labour standards. I wonder if you've received the report from Harry Arthurs. I'm wondering when it will be made public, and then when will the resulting legislation to amend the Canada Labour Code be tabled? I really want yes or no, and dates if possible.
Two, do you have any plans to re-establish a federal minimum wage, and how many federally regulated workers are now receiving the relative provincial minimum wage? They are essentially workers regulated by your department.
Third, one of your desired outcomes of all the work you and your staff do is a fair and stable workplace, yet the federally regulated sector accounted for a disproportionately large share of days lost due to a work stoppage; that is, 32.5%, or almost a third, of all work stoppages happened in the federally regulated sector. How do you account for this? In my view, the federally regulated sector should be setting the tone for the rest of the country.