International Labour Conference  Mr. Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order 32(2), I have the honour to table, in both official languages, Canada's report with respect to international labour law and labour organization instruments adopted at the 106th session of the International Labour Conference held in Geneva,

Canada Post Corporation  Mr. Speaker, no government wants to legislate workers back to work. However, parties of all stripes have legislated workers back to work. Seven NDP premiers have used back-to-work legislation on 15 different occasions. Three members of the current NDP caucus were members of NDP p

Canada Post Corporation  Mr. Speaker, Canada Post Corporation and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers had been negotiating collective agreements for unionized urban and rural workers, but they were unable to reach an agreement. Our government has done everything it can to support and encourage Canada Po

Christmas  Mr. Speaker, 'Twas the week before Christmas and our last week in this place, So here's one final ditty, before they walk out the mace; Let me ask your indulgence and suggest that we pause, To see what's in those letters to our dear Santa Claus. The opposition leader

Questions on the Order Paper  Mr. Speaker, per the privacy notice statement contained in the Canada Summer Jobs 2018 Applicant Guide, applications deemed ineligible will not be disclosed.

Carnegie Hero Fund Commission  Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the courageous and selfless actions of a constituent, Liam Bernard from Waycobah First Nation in Cape Breton. On September 16, 2016, Ralph Chrisman's pickup truck left a rural highway near Melford, Nova Scotia. Mr. Chrisman was pinned in hi

Postal Services Resumption and Continuation Act  Mr. Speaker, this may not come as a surprise that I agree with very little of what the member across has said. I believe that both ministers have been on this file and have been focused on this file. For a year, these negotiations have gone on. Our federally appointed mediators w

Postal Services Resumption and Continuation Act  Mr. Speaker, that is what happens when parliamentarians get involved in these types of debates. Those types of stories become reality, and that is not a fact. I know the CUPW members have made it a priority to make sure that people who depend on their cheques get them. That is no

Postal Services Resumption and Continuation Act  Mr. Speaker, I will be splitting my time with the member for Mirabel. Obviously strikes and lockouts are always a last resort for both workers and the company. When they happen, they will always affect not only the workers and the company, but customers, suppliers, communities a

Postal Services Resumption and Continuation Act  Mr. Speaker, I know that my friend is fair-minded, and I would hope that he would see the difference. When the Conservatives brought forward their back-to-work legislation, they had rigged the game for Canada Post from the outset. They brought in a final-presentation arbitrator

An Act to Provide for the Resumption and Continuation of Postal Services  Mr. Speaker, that gives me an opportunity to finish sharing the guiding principles. As my colleagues know, I talked first about health and safety, and I shared that with my friend. It would be one of the guiding principles of the mediator or arbitrator that would have to be abi

An Act to Provide for the Resumption and Continuation of Postal Services  Mr. Speaker, the member referenced ILO Convention 98. We are the government that ratified that convention, something that has been advocated for 40 years. We signed that convention. We absolutely believe the best way to get to a deal is for both sides to sit down and hammer out a

An Act to Provide for the Resumption and Continuation of Postal Services  Mr. Speaker, having sat in the House with the member for quite some time now, I always get a chuckle out of Conservatives when they start to bring up the use of closure by this government. We are only pikers when we look back at how the Conservatives used that particular standing

An Act to Provide for the Resumption and Continuation of Postal Services  Mr. Speaker, the member may have come in late, because, as I had indicated—

An Act to Provide for the Resumption and Continuation of Postal Services  Mr. Speaker, my apologies to the member. Obviously, he did not have the benefit of hearing the guiding principles of this legislation and the fact that—