Finance committee  Of course not. I don't know who was consulted. Obviously, the range of practices that are represented in the bill is very limited. The rest will be seen in the regulations, and we hope there will be consultations around the regulations too in terms of what practices make it in.

Finance committee  I am not sure there is another jurisdiction that has it specifically in its labour code that an employee can ask for flexible work arrangements, probably because it's not that meaningful. Employees do ask for flexible work arrangements all the time. The bigger problem is that em

Finance committee  Right, but we think the federal standard should meet or exceed the best provincial standard, and the best provincial standard is Saskatchewan, which requires one week's written notice of your schedule and of any changes to your schedule. Twenty-four hours just isn't enough, for

Finance committee  Thank you and good afternoon. Elizabeth and I are pleased to be here this afternoon to speak to you on behalf of the 651,000 members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees. I want to start by echoing the comments that were just made by the Canadian Labour Congress about cons

Health committee  I'm going to respectfully disagree with Madam Bourassa Forcier. I think the Quebec model is actually an example of bad competition. It allows the different players to make their profits by passing the cost on to the public. The public system negotiated a decrease in the cost of

Health committee  No, I don't doubt that, but I just want to respond to that point if I can.

Health committee  Thanks, Mr. Davies. I appreciate the opportunity to respond, because you raise a good point. We know that there are Canadians who can't afford their prescription medications. We know there are Canadians who are dying because they can't afford their prescription medications. I'm