“Mr. Speaker, the Canadian Labour Congress, Unifor, the United Steelworkers, Teamsters Canada and other unions representing millions of workers across this country have told the government very clearly that Bill C-39’s new powers would undermine the fundamental right of workers to strike, to withhold their labour. These organizations participated in the Liberals’ sham consultations. They raised these concerns directly, and yet the government proceeded with legislation that would give the minister extraordinary new powers to intervene in a legal strike. Why did the minister ignore the warnings from Canada’s labour movement, and will he commit to removing these new powers from Bill C-39?”
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Mr. Speaker, Claims · 55 wordsas my colleague well knows, we have in the Canada Labour Code today section 107, 1which is relatively unfettered.This bill would put in place specific guardrails that would govern its use, 2and only after special mediators and other processes designed to assist parties in particularly difficult labour–management relationships to actually reach a collective agreement.3Promise · 20 wordsThe government has no interest in getting involved in labour disputes.We want parties to solve disputes at the table, Claims · 14 wordsand this bill would put in place measures that would help them do that.
