International Trade committee  Thank you. You always give me the hard questions. I want to say that in this agreement it's the first.... I credit the government for this. Trade deals have to get away from just being so-called neutral in trade. The government put labour issues forward and wanted to go farther,

International Trade committee  It's a fairly simple formula. We do trains, railroad, airports, ports and couriers. If you look at the modern world, the more dollar volume there is, the faster it has to move. It means work and it means jobs.

International Trade committee  Absolutely, in that haul. Somewhere else, we're not sure. That's why I keep saying we're going to be fine, because in the modern world, if a union must be located somewhere, that's excellent. Of course, we do other things. As you know, there is British Columbia film. We're doing

International Trade committee  The teamsters have always supported free trade. As a union, we have grown. There's an awful lot of our members who, quite bluntly, live and die by trade—our railroads, etc. The dairy issue is an exception. It's because, in this case, the only reason they'll potentially be losin

International Trade committee  It certainly isn't ambitious. One of the problems is that dairy was thrown down the tubes. It's not a trading issue. The government decided to pony up $3.9 billion, and according to the minister, if I heard her right, listening to her testimony when she was here, she said that

International Trade committee  Just to be clear, are you talking about the diafiltered milk?

International Trade committee  Yes, the issue with that was that America had used the diafiltered milk as a way to get around importation of milk into Canada, because it wasn't in NAFTA. The government put in a plan and a process so it would work. That was really what set the Americans off: There was no counte

International Trade committee  I think the TRQs were just done, and the difference is that, for most of the imported dairy milk, we have the 10% cap now, so it has changed. As I understand it, most of the TRQs will be given to dairies, which helps dairies but does not help dairy farmers. We can talk later. We

International Trade committee  I know.

International Trade committee  It would be—

International Trade committee  Actually, this is not true for the teamsters. We're constantly maintaining or growing, and we're one of the few unions in this position, partly because we are in the transportation sector. Without market studies, it's hard to really understand what's going on. In all trade agree

International Trade committee  We have a supply management system, and America has their subsidy—

International Trade committee  I'll give you one thing we raised, just for a moment. The suggestion was that if they got rid of their subsidies we'd get rid of ours, and their answer was no.

International Trade committee  Good evening. Thanks for having us here. My name is Phil Benson. I'm a lobbyist with Teamsters Canada. With me is Christopher Monette, director of public affairs. Teamsters Canada is Canada's supply chain union, representing more than 125,000 workers in all sectors of the tran

Transport committee  I would agree, particularly on ELDs. We were before this committee with the CTA for 10 years fighting to get ELDs. We couldn't get them because America wasn't doing them. I think the answer is when you have.... We talk about the costs. You just need one catastrophic accident and