When I was a younger man living in Kingston, I used to leave home to go to Thunder Bay. A buddy and I would jump in the truck, whoever's truck it was, and we'd drive to Thunder Bay for a 12-day shutdown in one of the paper mills up there. We had one overnight stay. It's an 18-hour drive from Kingston to Thunder Bay. We had one night in a hotel getting there. On a 12-day shutdown, because we were travel cards, we weren't local members, we probably got 10 days. I had to keep myself in a hotel for 10 days. I had to feed myself. If the job were in Bowater, which is downtown Thunder Bay, there was no travel and no board. I can't write off my hotel room. That's all I'm asking for: write off my gas, write off my hotel room, write off my gas home. The salesman who sold the welding rod that I used on that job got to write off his travel expenses and his supper.
On May 21st, 2013. See this statement in context.