Industry committee  Mr. Arthur, yes, I compared us with a country that was throwing people from planes. And I compared that because I was one of those.... I spent three years in jail in that country, and I'm here as a political refugee. This country saved my life. When I talk about that country, I k

Industry committee  There are a couple of things. There is this myth that workers and manufacturers in Canada are not productive. Just plain numbers will show that is not true. We've lost 250,000 jobs in the last two years and we didn't lose $1 in shipment in manufacturing. That means this country i

Industry committee  For the Canadian worker.

Industry committee  On what we are doing to stop the loss of jobs in manufacturing, we are first doing a presentation to you, and hopefully you will do something.

Industry committee  We don't have a productivity problem.

Industry committee  Also in answer to Mr. Lapierre, we support sectoral industrial strategies. We are working with employers in the steel sector and with the federal and provincial governments in the steel partnership sector council. We support that kind of strategy, like the automobile sector counc

Industry committee  The World Economic Forum report on global competitiveness put Canada at number 27 over 58 countries in unique products and processes, meaning we won't be able to compete in things that are originally from Canada. Research and development in Canada is quite important. We think th

Industry committee  In our case, we represent workers in steel and manufacturing and we represent workers in auto parts. It's quite clear that cars that are coming into Canada, made in Korea, will affect our members, because they have not been able to produce the auto parts or the steel needed to ma

Industry committee  It's exactly the contrary. During the time of crisis, the Argentinian currency was of high value. It was one to one with the Canadian dollar, and that was what destroyed the whole industrial base, to the point that after the crisis, just to start re-engaging the economy, they had

Industry committee  I have a couple of examples. The softwood lumber deal was presented. One of the characteristics of that deal is an incentive to export logs out of Canada, instead of manufacturing, making paper, furniture. The softwood lumber had not yet been implemented. Northern Quebec and Onta

Industry committee  Thank you. I'm looking at my own union and the experience twenty years ago during the previous crisis in the steel sector. At that point, the union and the industry created the CSTEC bipartite organization to discuss the need for retraining for unemployed and employed workers.

Industry committee  Thank you for this opportunity. I will divide my presentation into two parts: one, general context; two, the challenges we see as a union facing manufacturing and the solutions and ideas we have about how to deal with these challenges. Let me start by sharing what Lina said. We