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House Hansard - 256

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
November 27, 2023 11:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 256 - Nov/27/23
Mr. Randall Garrison (Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke, NDP)
  • Nov/27/23 1:10:15 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I always enjoy these sessions in the House, where the Conservatives and the Liberals compete over who is the worst at things. Whether it is the worst at supporting Ukraine, or the worst at supporting housing or the worst friends of workers, it is nice to hear that debate between the two of them. I have a very serious question. The Conservatives like to talk about powerful paycheques, and we know what made powerful paycheque, the trade union movement. It was the trade union movement that raised wages. It was the trade union movement that set the standards for leave, including parental leave and sick leave, and even weekends. It was the trade union movement that set standards for occupational health and safety. Does that mean, if the Conservatives really are the friends of workers and better friends than the Liberals, that they are going to be supporting this legislation in order to make paycheques more powerful?
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Context: House Hansard - 256 - Nov/27/23
Mr. Randall Garrison (Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke, NDP)
  • Nov/27/23 4:03:00 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I wonder if the hon. member shares with me my enthusiasm for this new legislation in that it has something that Quebec and British Columbia both lack, which is attention to the fact that, with the rise of remote work, there is often no longer a physical picket line to cross, so this new legislation that we are bringing forward would be an improvement over both Quebec and British Columbia in that it anticipates strikebreaking could be done through remote work.
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Context: House Hansard - 256 - Nov/27/23
Mr. Randall Garrison (Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke, NDP)
  • Nov/27/23 5:39:55 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I wonder whether the hon. member shares with me my confidence that the new bill would do a better job than those in both British Columbia and Quebec, in that it attempts to address the question that is important in areas where the federal government has jurisdiction of remote work, especially in telecommunications. I wonder whether she shares the optimism that the bill would help address the use of replacement workers working from home.
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Context: House Hansard - 256 - Nov/27/23
Mr. Randall Garrison (Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke, NDP)
  • Nov/27/23 5:58:00 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, we have heard the Conservatives talk a lot about more powerful paycheques. Could the member expand a bit on how workers got more powerful paycheques and the role of trade unions in getting health and safety requirements in the workplace, better leave requirements and a living wage for workers? How would the bill help them advance that work?
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Context: House Hansard - 256 - Nov/27/23
Mr. Randall Garrison (Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke, NDP)
  • Nov/27/23 6:09:55 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I wonder how the hon. member for Windsor West squares the rhetoric we keep hearing from the Conservatives about powerful paycheques with the fact that they oppose legislation like this and they have twice before voted against a federal minimum wage.
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