Evidence of meeting #97 for Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was incidents.
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Liberal
Bobby Morrissey Liberal Egmont, PE
We add paragraph 162: “undergo training in the prevention of harassment and violence in the workplace”.
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Liberal
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Conservative
Rosemarie Falk Conservative Battlefords—Lloydminster, SK
I know that when we drafted this, that is why we had the amendment previously. When we were working with legal services, they said we needed it in clause 2 to be employers and—
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Conservative
Rosemarie Falk Conservative Battlefords—Lloydminster, SK
—that we weren't able to add employers into clause 3. That's why we needed the other amendment. They went hand in hand.
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Conservative
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Director General, Strategic Policy, Analysis and Workplace, Labour Program, Department of Employment and Social Development
That section we're talking about is all about what the duties of employers are. Where it gets tricky is that this would put the obligation on the employers themselves. It's saying that as an employer you have an obligation to ensure that your employees have this training, and then, because we don't reference employees, that they also have the obligation to undergo training themselves. It's just keeping it all in one bundle, if you will.
4:55 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Bryan May
Good. Is there any further discussion?
Seeing none, first we need to vote on the subamendment, which removes the words “the prescribed”, so that after the comma it would now read, “receive...”? Does it make sense? It would be a new paragraph, correct?
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Liberal
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Bryan May
It's not a complete sentence, though, because then it would say “receive undergo training”.
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Liberal
Bobby Morrissey Liberal Egmont, PE
Why? It's “receive training”: to “receive training in prevention of harassment and violence in the workplace”.
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Conservative
Steven Blaney Conservative Bellechasse—Les Etchemins—Lévis, QC
So, in the French version, the word “réglementaire” would be removed. The word “réglementaire” means “prescribed”, doesn't it,Ms. Fortier?
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Liberal
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Conservative
Steven Blaney Conservative Bellechasse—Les Etchemins—Lévis, QC
Fine.
I'm surprised at the Liberals now.
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