Environment committee  Your guess is as good as mine. We'd certainly be concerned about it. That's a very good question. I don't have the answer to that question right now. It's certainly something that should be taken into consideration by all parties—government, industry and labour—because that could

Environment committee  Indeed. Thank you for your question.

Environment committee  Ha ha! I'd also like to hear from Mr. Mousseau.

Environment committee  I have nothing to add. Mr. Mousseau explained it very well. Thank you very much.

Environment committee  Thank you for that question. To start, especially getting back to a previous honourable member's comment, I think everybody should be quite clear that, for the CLC, when we represent three million workers and when we're talking about unionized jobs across this country, we can't

Environment committee  I don't want to keep repeating myself, but our organization is going to support anything that brings us to the table in the decision-making process. I've heard the comments from the Chamber of Commerce and from the industry side. We will be talking about workers. Everybody talks

Environment committee  Absolutely. Just transition means that.... We have a model already. We have health and safety committees in the workplace. Why don't we just introduce the same notion of having just transition committees in the workplace as well, where we are at the table? That's one way we ca

Environment committee  I will quickly respond and ask my colleague Tara Peel to add her comments. I want to make one thing clear: the CLC isn't saying that there should be no subsidies, but rather that they should be directed to what will support workers, who are constituents. Ms. Peel can answer the

Environment committee  For the latter part of your question, that is exactly what we're asking for, to make sure that the investments are targeted, and that does include tax and the other kinds of subsidies we're talking about. We need to make sure that the funding that the government is looking at is

Environment committee  I'll ask Tara to round that out, because there are some specific measures we'd like to see. Go ahead.

Environment committee  Mr. Chair and honourable committee members, thank you for the opportunity to appear today. My name is Larry Rousseau. I'm the executive vice‑president of the Canadian Labour Congress. The CLC is Canada's largest central labour body speaking on national issues on behalf of three

International Trade committee  Of course. In addition to the measures that must be put in place to ensure the viability of the industry and enterprises, there must also be specific measures for workers. I am thinking of employment insurance, specifically. At this time there are work-sharing agreements in pla

International Trade committee  We are certainly making the recommendation and having talks, but I can't say this has been committed to at this time. But certainly we are going to work very strongly and make it very clear that we need this kind of a working group that can be more nimble and make recommendations

International Trade committee  In our brief, we ask that in such circumstances, workers be taken into account. We are hearing talk about layoffs. Sales may decline and the economy may slow down, but workers may have to deal with the worst consequences. We already proposed models. First we have to support work

International Trade committee  If the steel and aluminum industries decide to try other production avenues, there will have to be programs to enable them to train their workers. The fact that we work in a given sector does not mean that we cannot, together with the industry, determine whether workers can acqui