Mr. Speaker, the government's inaction with the illegal Xstrata job cuts has set a dangerous precedent.
Today, Brazilian-based Vale Inco is cutting 423 jobs across Canada, 261 of them in Sudbury and Nickel Belt, but it has an agreement with the government not to cut jobs until October 2009.
After the Xstrata fiasco, companies now see that no layoff agreements mean nothing, because the Conservative government ignores them without consequence.
When will the government finally stand up for workers and enforce the no layoff agreements?