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House Hansard - 73

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 17, 2022 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 73 - May/17/22
Mr. Alexandre Boulerice (Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie, NDP)
  • May/17/22 10:14:59 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the third petition is about the machinists' union. Federal law contains loopholes that make it possible for employers to pay part-time and casual workers a lower hourly wage than they pay full-time workers doing the same work. That is discrimination. Legislation received royal assent in 2018, but a date of effect was not given, which means this discrimination has gone on since 2018.
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Mr. Ken McDonald (Avalon, Lib.)
  • May/17/22 3:17:41 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I have always heard the NDP picking up for unionized workers and picking up for workers in general, but I heard the member come down hard on the oil industry. Most of those workers are union-paying members. Is he saying to put them out of work and leave them without jobs?
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Context: House Hansard - 73 - May/17/22
Mr. Richard Cannings
  • May/17/22 3:18:09 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the answer to the member's question is, of course, “no”. We do not want to put oil and gas workers out of work. The oil and gas industry has been very good to Canada over the past decades. The member for Calgary Centre recounted in great detail how much benefit it has provided Canadians and Canadian workers. However, that is not where we are going. What I am saying is we have to make sure that those workers who have good union jobs now will have good union jobs in the future, but those jobs are disappearing, whether they like it or not. A lot of those workers are rightly concerned about what they see. We have to invest in that future for them and their families.
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