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Industry committee Thank you, Mr. Chair. I send apologies on behalf of Shirley-Ann George, our senior vice-president of policy, who is ill today. Appearing with me today is Barry Sookman, who is with McCarthy Tétrault. Barry is widely known as an expert in Canadian technology law. He is the auth
June 16th, 2009Committee meeting
Susanna Cluff-Clyburne
Industry committee I was going to say that Mr. Sookman sits on our e-com telecom committee as a member, and he is participating with us today because he is an expert on--
June 16th, 2009Committee meeting
Susanna Cluff-Clyburne
Foreign Affairs committee We submitted a submission after the round tables' report was issued.
November 19th, 2009Committee meeting
Susanna Cluff-Clyburne
Foreign Affairs committee No, we do not.
November 19th, 2009Committee meeting
Susanna Cluff-Clyburne
Foreign Affairs committee First of all, the Chamber of Commerce was not a part of the round tables process. And the issue with regard to the ombudsman was the fact that we felt that the government had the bureaucratic structure in place through the national contact point within DFAIT. We felt that rather
November 19th, 2009Committee meeting
Susanna Cluff-Clyburne
Foreign Affairs committee Sure. What Perrin said is absolutely true. I wasn't with the chamber at the time, but I've spoken with a couple of people who actually sat on the round tables, and they've said they were there as individuals. They were brought to the round tables because of their expertise in th
November 19th, 2009Committee meeting
Susanna Cluff-Clyburne
Human Resources committee Absolutely, and thank you for the opportunity to be here today. The Canadian Chamber, as you probably know, represents businesses of every size in every region of the country. We count amongst our members several federally regulated employers in the communications, financial ser
February 15th, 2011Committee meeting
Susanna Cluff-Clyburne
Human Resources committee We're not challenging the elimination of mandatory retirement from the Canadian Human Rights Act. All we're asking for on behalf of our members is that these companies that do provide critical services to Canadians have measures in place where they can manage their businesses, wh
February 15th, 2011Committee meeting
Susanna Cluff-Clyburne
Human Resources committee What we're referring to is if there is a case where an employee is found not to be able to perform the particular job they are to perform for safety reasons and they are eligible for a pension, then there should be no severance payable at that time. But it would only be in the ca
February 15th, 2011Committee meeting
Susanna Cluff-Clyburne
Human Resources committee No. I'm referring to where it's been demonstrated by the employer, through whatever means the particular employer employs, that the employee is no longer able to perform that particular function in a safe manner and the person is already eligible for a pension; then the person wo
February 15th, 2011Committee meeting
Susanna Cluff-Clyburne
Human Resources committee We'll have to agree to disagree on that, then, because our members believe they need to have measures in place to protect the health and safety of their employees and of Canadians.
February 15th, 2011Committee meeting
Susanna Cluff-Clyburne
Human Resources committee I can't speak on behalf of individual companies. Since I was asked to appear last week, I have spoken with several of our members who are in the federally regulated sector, and they have said that in order to make the adjustments necessary to their benefits plans, to their busine
February 15th, 2011Committee meeting
Susanna Cluff-Clyburne
Human Resources committee Again, I'm not in a position to speak on behalf of individual companies because every company is different. They are asking for some time to be able to implement any changes that may need to be made in their businesses before the legislation comes into force.
February 15th, 2011Committee meeting
Susanna Cluff-Clyburne
Human Resources committee No, I have not spoken with any labour organizations. My presentation today was based on discussions with our federally regulated members.
February 15th, 2011Committee meeting
Susanna Cluff-Clyburne
Human Resources committee Thank you, Mr. Komarnicki. Essentially, we've recommended amendments in three areas. The first would be to explicitly permit federally regulated employers to apply mandatory retirement when there is an issue of risk to the safety of the public and/or other workers. The second ar
February 15th, 2011Committee meeting
Susanna Cluff-Clyburne