Human Resources committee  I'll just speak to the U.S. experience. Sara is far better qualified than me to speak about the Canadian experience. We had this debate quite thoroughly during the time of the Employee Free Choice Act in the early years of the Obama administration. It was constantly raised by opp

Human Resources committee  I'm happy to address those questions. I think to your first question, if you have a system of mandatory elections, it certainly makes a difference to have time limits on the duration of the campaign. Shorter campaigns are clearly preferable. They offer much greater protection fo

Human Resources committee  Thank you. I'll also keep my remarks brief and obviously my remarks are aimed at the U.S. experience with union financial reporting and with mandatory elections. To a large extent, the Canadian bills we're discussing were based on the U.S. experience. It's certainly my experie

Human Resources committee  Thank you.