moved for leave to introduce Bill C-431, an act to amend the Canada Post Corporation Act (mail contractors).
Mr. Speaker, the bill that I am introducing today would do one very simple thing. It would eliminate one clause in the Canada Post Corporation Act which currently bars a group of employees from free collective bargaining and from their right to form a union. I am speaking about the rural route mail couriers of which there are 5,000. They are the only group of workers that I know of in this country who are specifically barred from the right to free collective bargaining. By the simple elimination of this one section of the act, it would solve that problem and give these people that access.
(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)