International Trade committee  The Yukon has 37,000 people, and for the most part, 20,000 of them are looking for jobs, or have a job, or whatnot. We don't have a lot of options here for work, so for us it's a flood.

International Trade committee  I don't know if that would actually develop the jobs for us. I mean, anything is possible. We'll certainly work together as workers to try to make better opportunities for workers and for jobs. I guess the proof is in the pudding.

International Trade committee  A lot of unions and a lot of negotiation happen through what's come before. Take maternity leave and its history. Maternity leave won by the postal workers has been initiated into other unions to be part of their negotiation practices as well. We're concerned that in the future t

International Trade committee  Yukon is different, because the government pays for a lot of our medication. The unions always have fairly good drug plans. I'm not sure it's really going to affect the workers within unions as much as it would those who don't have a workplace drug plan.

International Trade committee  That's a huge issue. I know that the chamber and I won't agree on this aspect, and that's all right. The temporary foreign worker program and the nominee program have brought in a lot of foreign workers. The problem with that is, obviously, they get sent home sometimes when the

International Trade committee  I delivered mail in the 1990s. I used to do it in temperatures that were at -50° for a month. We haven't seen -40° in years, and if that's not proof of climate change, I don't know what is.

International Trade committee  No. There are other clauses. I was just focusing more on the labour aspect, and of course the Yukon Federation of Labour would do that. There are other things, such as the investor state provisions, that create a problem. We could become one of the most sued countries in the wo

International Trade committee  Good morning. I'm Vikki Quocksister, president of the Yukon Federation of Labour. I'd like to thank the council and the committee for allowing us to speak today. Among the issues that workers in the Yukon have is our concern about the labour mobility clauses within the TPP. We