International Trade committee  We're looking at this as just another nail in the coffin for an industry that's been struggling for the last 30 or 40 years in this country because of a lack of true, clear policy for the industry. The criminal part of this whole agreement and of the agreements that have already

International Trade committee  As far as we're aware, the subsidy in the industry in Korea has been as high as 30%. It could be higher in other areas. The massive amount of money the government has put into this industry in Korea in the last seven or eight decades is the difference when we look at Korea. If

International Trade committee  We've had no prior consultation with the government on this trade agreement. We were aware during the transition of government that the EFTA agreement was going on, and we put forward our concerns regarding that deal. Since then the committee we sat on from the shipbuilding indus

International Trade committee  We looked at the B.C. ferry project on its own and those three vessels that went to Germany. Those three vessels, built over a period of four years, involved 5,000 jobs--direct and indirect jobs--that were lost to Canada. They were lost to Canada because clearly the provincial

International Trade committee  We've not done a proper analysis as to what the impact of the agreement with Korea will be. But we've worked very closely with the federal government for the last two and a half decades to try to formulate a policy that would make some sense going forward for our industry. We're

International Trade committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I appear before you today to represent the approximately 2,000 skilled workers of the Shipyard General Workers’ Federation of B.C., who work in the shipyards, marine manufacturing and supply industries, and metal fabrication shops in British Columbia’s c