Finance committee  I think it takes a lot longer to get started nowadays, and as my colleague from the building trades said, the worst thing that can happen to any of us, whether you're a middle-aged worker or a young worker.... Everything I've read in three decades of doing this for a living.... I

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Let me begin by commending the committee for taking on this subject matter. It's CUPE's privilege to represent about 625,000 Canadians, tens of thousands of younger workers in all aspects of the public service. We think the public service is a viable opt

Finance committee  Through the chair, CUPE's official policy on the Middle East is a two-state solution.

Finance committee  Okay. CUPE National's policy on the Middle East is very similar to the one enunciated by the minister responsible that we need a two-state solution.

Finance committee  Yes. I never said that Mr. Baird had said that at all.

Finance committee  Through the chair, as part of the finance committee report, I won't deny that we correspond with government on a range of issues. CUPE National's position, as forged in convention and reaffirmed twice, is for a two-state solution.

Finance committee  I've answered the question, Mr. Chairman. Thank you very much.

Finance committee  We have 630,000.

Finance committee  It's up to each local when they must remit some payment to CUPE National. We don't actually know how much is remitted nationally. It goes to the locals.

Finance committee  Yes. They're on cupe.ca, under the treasurer's report, Deloitte and Touche, 2013.

Finance committee  We're a registered trade union of the Government of Canada. Each provincial jurisdiction requires you to register, so we're a registered trade union and we're treated as such. We pay all taxes—GST, HST—but our members' union dues are tax deductible as determined by the Income Tax

Finance committee  No. We don't operate on a profit basis.

Finance committee  No. We have reserved funds for our strike fund. We pay for our photocopiers and we pay for our cellphone plans, but we're not an entity that exists to publish a profit. It's all on the web page at cupe.ca. The last four years of audited statements by Deloitte here in Ottawa are t

Finance committee  The mandate is to provide economic and workplace security for all the members we organize and to contribute to the social fabric of the country where part of the debate was to create medicare and CPP, so we have a direct responsibility to our membership and a social responsibilit

Finance committee  Yes. CUPE National's policy is very similar to that of the Government of Canada. We invest ourselves with the UN resolutions calling for a two-state solution. A decade ago one of our provincial wings got themselves into the debate you reference, but CUPE National has a twelve-yea