“Mr. Speaker, yesterday morning, I woke up and I thought there was an air raid going off. I heard sirens. I did not feel any bombs drop. I looked out the window and did not see any buildings on fire nearby. These sirens kept on going. This morning, I walked down Sparks Street on the way to West Block, and I heard these sirens again. It was members of the public service striking, and they had this siren that sounded like an air horn or an air raid. If the workers, for whom this legislation is supposed to be so beneficial, are opposing it so vociferously, how is it going to be good for them? Why are they so opposed to it?”
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Mr. Speaker, Claims · 137 wordswe worked extensively with employers and labour unions, and of course Canadians, who all told us that it is very important to uphold a collective right to strike.It is in our Constitution.1That is exactly what this legislation would do.It would address the challenges that workers are having in their workplaces, in particular around those first collective agreements, which can also be very difficult to arrive at.Importantly, it would strengthen workers’ rights to be able to pursue a strike without the pre-emptive interference of the government.2Finally, it would put the onus on the parties themselves to get to an agreement by using new tools, especially in high-conflict relationships.3That is a very important new process that I believe will help parties get a deal at the table where it ought to be made.
