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Procedure and House Affairs committee I don't know the answer to that. I just know that the CLC derives its funding base from a per capita amount charged on the basis of membership to affiliated unions.
June 7th, 2018Committee meeting
Chris Roberts
Procedure and House Affairs committee As most people who know about the labour movement in Canada already realize, there are international unions that are present in Canada and that played a role, historically, in the formation of unions in Canada. Many Canadian affiliate unions of the Canadian Labour Congress are he
June 7th, 2018Committee meeting
Chris Roberts
Procedure and House Affairs committee Absolutely. The Canadian Labour Congress is arguably the largest democratically member owned and operated organization in Canada.
June 7th, 2018Committee meeting
Chris Roberts
Procedure and House Affairs committee Absolutely. They have multiple opportunities, all through the year in the election cycle, to participate along with their co-workers in the organizational life of their unions to shape the policy direction and the issues and the parties they support. We definitely support that k
June 7th, 2018Committee meeting
Chris Roberts
Procedure and House Affairs committee As I understand it, the definition of partisan activity is now regulated, insofar as it promotes or opposes the candidacy or election of a particular party or candidate, but not insofar as it's speaking to an issue with which that party or candidate is associated. There is some a
June 7th, 2018Committee meeting
Chris Roberts
Procedure and House Affairs committee I'm talking mainly about third parties in political life.
June 7th, 2018Committee meeting
Chris Roberts
Procedure and House Affairs committee All of what I just said was to underscore our position that we understand and appreciate the need to regulate third party political engagement.
June 7th, 2018Committee meeting
Chris Roberts
Procedure and House Affairs committee That there is as much space preserved as possible for that kind of political engagement....
June 7th, 2018Committee meeting
Chris Roberts
Procedure and House Affairs committee From the CLC's perspective, there are things to appreciate in the bill. I do think the committee does need to look at and very carefully reflect on the amount of space provided. In terms of the spending limits, the CLC doesn't typically come close to the spending restrictions, b
June 7th, 2018Committee meeting
Chris Roberts
Finance committee Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Good afternoon, committee members. Thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today. I'm here on behalf of the Canadian Labour Congress, Canada's largest labour central, advocating on behalf of three million workers in Canada. I want to s
September 26th, 2018Committee meeting
Chris Roberts
Finance committee Specifically with respect to home care, for instance, there are no particular asks that we're bringing forward. We want to see a stronger and sustained federal commitment to spending more broadly on health care and the seniors strategy is an important part of that.
September 26th, 2018Committee meeting
Chris Roberts
Human Resources committee Thank you very much, Chair. Good morning, committee members. Thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today on this important subject. The Canadian Labour Congress speaks on national issues on behalf of three million unionized workers in Canada. It brings together o
April 4th, 2019Committee meeting
Chris Roberts
Human Resources committee That's a great question. I think there are a lot of unions that are trying to organize workers in precarious employment—vulnerable workers, in particular. You have the United Food and Commercial Workers, which is organizing migrant workers, newcomers to Canada, in meat-packing, g
April 4th, 2019Committee meeting
Chris Roberts
Human Resources committee If I understood you correctly, in particular, what impact could the $15-an-hour minimum wage, the return to a federal minimum wage, have? That's being studied by the expert panel of course. I think there is good evidence to show that a significant number of low-paid workers in
April 4th, 2019Committee meeting
Chris Roberts
Human Resources committee It's definitely the case that millennials and youth are particularly vulnerable to the kind of exploitation and extreme insecurity that we see rising around the margins of the labour market in particular. There has been discussion about workers wanting flexibility. I think that m
April 4th, 2019Committee meeting
Chris Roberts