Mr. Robert Blakely at the Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities Committee

On October 22nd, 2009. See this statement in context.

October 22nd, 2009 / 4:50 p.m.

Director, Canadian Affairs, Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO, Canadian Office

With our current membership, roughly half a million members on any given day, we represent 8% of the workforce in Canada. So if you look around, I think your number was 190,000 people who will benefit from this, and based on that 8%, on any given day about 13,000 of our members will benefit.

But I'd also like to make sure that the apprentices, a significant number of them, don't fail to benefit. I'd like them to benefit.

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