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Transport committee No. Part of the problem is that there aren't enough people like me standing up for their rights, and so the system simply disregards us. If unions have more lobbying influence, unionized shops, by extension, have the advantage when it comes to obtaining contracts. In Canada, 77%
April 30th, 2013Committee meeting
Jocelyn Dumais
April 30th, 2013Committee meeting
Jocelyn Dumais
Transport committee Yes. When you're in business, you're ready and willing to compete with anyone, union or non-union. The only objection I have is that if I'm non-union, I can't compete with those who are in the union.
April 30th, 2013Committee meeting
Jocelyn Dumais
Transport committee No, on the contrary.
April 30th, 2013Committee meeting
Jocelyn Dumais
Transport committee I am suggesting that they have equal rights. I am also suggesting that the unionized shops holding the contracts not force their subcontractors to be unionized and not be permitted to keep non-unionized shops off constructions sites. That isn't the reality now.
April 30th, 2013Committee meeting
Jocelyn Dumais
Transport committee It's just in Ontario. I live in Quebec, but I am an Ontario contractor.
April 30th, 2013Committee meeting
Jocelyn Dumais
Transport committee I've never worked in Quebec, like many people in the Gatineau area.
April 30th, 2013Committee meeting
Jocelyn Dumais
Transport committee Because of the unionization there.
April 30th, 2013Committee meeting
Jocelyn Dumais
April 30th, 2013Committee meeting
Jocelyn Dumais
Transport committee I'm not allowed, unless I bow to the law requiring me to unionize. As I see it, requiring me to unionize is like forcing me to go to church. I won't go. We have freedom of religion, so we should have freedom of association.
April 30th, 2013Committee meeting
Jocelyn Dumais
Transport committee Yes.
April 30th, 2013Committee meeting
Jocelyn Dumais
Transport committee I don't know if people were living under a rock, but I haven't learned anything new from the Charbonneau commission, and I don't think we will. They're talking about collusion. It's true that Quebec's system is ripe for that, because it forces contractors to band together and un
April 30th, 2013Committee meeting
Jocelyn Dumais
Transport committee In what sense?
April 30th, 2013Committee meeting
Jocelyn Dumais
Transport committee Whether the project is at the Ottawa airport or here, on Parliament Hill, if the general contractor has signed an agreement with one of the unions and was awarded the contract, the construction site is not accessible to me if I haven't signed an agreement with that union. I'm pen
April 30th, 2013Committee meeting
Jocelyn Dumais
Transport committee My name is Jocelyn Dumais, and I am a construction contractor in the Ottawa area. I live in Quebec. October 19, 2001 is a little-known date on which the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in the Advance Cutting & Coring case, stating that the freedom to belong to a union also mea
April 30th, 2013Committee meeting
Jocelyn Dumais