Mr. Speaker, last week I spoke in the House against the current government practice of paying certain federal public service workers different rates of pay for doing the same work in different regions of our country.
I am now raising the matter again in the context of the ongoing CBC strike. CBC management is proposing to change a national pay system to a two tier system, with workers in Toronto and Vancouver receiving higher rates of pay than CBC workers elsewhere in Canada.
CBC is a national body. Its pay system should not treat workers in Newfoundland as second class.
I call upon the minister responsible to put an end to that practice and help bring about a resolution of the strike at the earliest opportunity.