Transport committee  I'm not even sure what the question was any more.

Transport committee  I think if I were responding to a question on union busting, I probably would also be subject to a point of order, so perhaps it's best I don't.

Transport committee  You're way outside of my area of expertise in terms of corporate profitability, but I believe that the elements are there to make a successful company.

Transport committee  I believe the elements are all there to make a successful company. I think that a lot of where this needs to go is that there needs to be a properly managed and properly run company. That's been our opinion for quite some time, simply with the dealings we've had with the manageme

Transport committee  I'll cut it short.

Transport committee  No, but this was also a question asked by the Government of British Columbia. We haven't gone that far down any particular road, but we don't rule out any situation. We simply want to get people together. There has to be a solution. I refuse to believe that there is not a solutio

Transport committee  We were 100% opposed.

Transport committee  We foresaw exactly what has happened today. We foresaw this as a chance to get rid of our members—their benefits, their pensions—and to ultimately push them aside.

Transport committee  We're not looking for a bailout. In my opinion, that's not why we came here. We're simply looking to get a business climate and for the government to facilitate to the extent it can to make this work for all the parties. From what I understand from the Conservative agenda, it is

Transport committee  We didn't have substantive proposals. We asked would they come to Ottawa and work with us and the federal government to try to get a national solution. The commitment we got from the 83 MLAs in Victoria was that they would.

Transport committee  Originally we talked about legal opinions. Legal opinions are all over the map. I think some of the members on the committee had a valid point about making the law say what it was supposed to say, to beef it up. This, to us, is simply about keeping Canadian expertise, Canadian

Transport committee  I'll speak to this a little bit and to a few other things. One of the first questions asked by a member was why Aveos was not mentioned in the act and why the IAM was not mentioned in the act. I think that some of this questioning on where we are proved exactly what Aveos was cr

Transport committee  I was in Victoria on Tuesday with a delegation of 57 of our members. We met with both the official opposition and the B.C. Liberal government. The message we got is that this is an important issue for British Columbia and for Canada, and that this has to be done in a non-partisan

Transport committee  I don't think there were ever profits.