Human Resources committee  My final thought in my presentation was that we saw the same trends in B.C., and I was going to end there. Let's break it down. To understand the context about why strikes occur and why we see an increase or decrease in strikes, I'll note they cannot be correlated to one single

Human Resources committee  Absolutely.

Human Resources committee  I would echo what Mr. Hancock said—

Human Resources committee  It's no problem.

Human Resources committee  I'm sorry. Did you want me to respond to the first question or the second one?

Human Resources committee  My union and our work don't deal with independent contractors and dependent contractors, so I would defer to some of the union leaders who have dealt with this directly.

Human Resources committee  Thank you for allowing me to be here. I apologize that I'm not able to attend in person. Somewhat ironically, the teachers in Saskatchewan are in a rotating strike position, and I've been having to pick up my kids for lunch hours, so we were unable to leave until last week. I re

Electoral Reform committee  This is a little bit different from the research. In my own personal work in the classroom, one of the things I am experiencing as a professor and educator is that my students are learning differently. My whole job is changing before my eyes. Students are far more interested in o

Electoral Reform committee  Is your concern that if we moved to a form of proportional representation, rural ridings would become so large that it would become almost impossible for voters to access the polls or to know who their representatives are? Is that the question?

Electoral Reform committee  Across different countries that use different systems, these are issues. Certainly there are issues that need to be thought through. Not all forms of electoral systems would suggest that we have to move to super-ridings in the rural areas. Fair Vote Canada has put forward an inte

Electoral Reform committee  Could you ask the question again, please? I thought it was directed specifically at him.

Electoral Reform committee  The bigger question that we need to answer is why people aren't voting, why 30% don't show up at the polls, depending on the election. We can't measure it election by election. We need to look at it over time. Pollsters and some quantitative researchers have put forward the ide

Electoral Reform committee  I think it provides an opening. If the voting system is to empower voters and citizens, then the question is, can we do better? The data points out that most Canadians see the federal government and the provincial governments as the sites of political power in the country. I thin

Electoral Reform committee  Well, here is a question I would respond with. What is the incentive to vote if you're a Conservative in downtown Toronto or if you're a New Democrat in rural Saskatchewan? What's the motivation? If you're a Green Party supporter anywhere except for southern Vancouver Island, wha

Electoral Reform committee  Yes, there's definitely some evidence that Canada is doing well in certain areas. When we look at where people of colour and indigenous members are being elected, they usually have strong demographic populations in those ridings, which is great and leads to some important obser