Finance committee  First of all let's make sure we put on the record that in all of these crown corporations and in the public service, those people you call employees make significant contributions from their own pay package to their pension plans.

Finance committee  So it's not just one side. It's them and there's an issue of how the government—

Finance committee  But in terms of the crown corporations, they are accountable to Parliament already through the minister responsible. They get their mandate from the minister. The Treasury Board or your internal structures can give a mandate or the minister can give a wage mandate to the crown co

Finance committee  They go to the bank. If they can't go to the government, then the crown corporation should go to the bank. If they were a private employer for all intents and purposes.... Some of my employers I've negotiated with have had to go to the bank to get some backstopping. General Motor

Finance committee  I'm not that smart.

Finance committee  I've had this experience and what it does for the management-side negotiators is freeze their ability to make compromises at a bargaining table, because they have to look over their shoulder and wait for permission from someone else. If that someone else doesn't have the responsi

Finance committee  We hope that would be the case. We would think that our advice on industrial relations and collective bargaining, and unemployment insurance and pension reform, would be sought out by any government of the day. Unfortunately, it seems that our opinions are not valued enough by

Finance committee  We're a bit curious as to why a successful process of collective bargaining and the legislation that allows workers to organize and bargain collectively is not seen as a positive aspect of the economy and society.

Finance committee  You're correct. At least 65% of Canadians don't have a pension plan, but taking a pension plan away from the other Canadians isn't going to help those Canadians without a pension plan. This is my first point. My second point is that the Canada pension plan expansion that we are

Finance committee  That's correct.

Finance committee  That's correct.

Finance committee  We have 3,000 delegates at a convention, yes.

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Rajotte and committee. On behalf of the 3.3 million members of the Canadian Labour Congress, I want to thank you for the opportunity to present our views on Bill C-60, an act to implement certain provisions of the 2013-14 budget. The CLC brings together workers f

Finance committee  Mr. Rajotte, we'd have a lot tougher time arguing if it applied to everybody, but the fact that it doesn't makes us very suspicious about the intent of the legislation and the purpose of the legislation. I don't think the Income Tax Act is the vehicle to be regulating and overse

Finance committee  I think you should, but you don't.