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{
"time": "2007-12-03 11:15:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Bill Siksay (Burnaby\u2014Douglas, NDP)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"807174\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I have a question for the member for <a data-HoCid=\"78983\" href=\"/politicians/mario-silva/\" title=\"Mario Silva\">Davenport</a>.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"807175\" data-originallang=\"en\">I noticed in the debate on Bill <a data-HoCid=\"2169666\" href=\"/bills/39-2/C-257/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Canada Labour Code (replacement workers)\">C-257</a>, the previous attempt to get the issue of replacement workers through the House, including the Canada Labour Code, that many Liberal members hid behind the issue of essential services when in fact the Canada Labour Code now deals with that in section 87.4. It lays out a provision that unions and employers must designate essential services prior to the commencement of a strike or lockout and in fact also gives the minister power to ask the Canada Industrial Relations Board to designate those services in that situation.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"807176\" data-originallang=\"en\">Therefore, there is no flaw in the current Canada Labour Code when it comes to essential services and yet that is the problem that Liberals hid behind when some of them voted against this legislation the last time.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"807177\" data-originallang=\"en\">I know the member spent considerable time in his speech this morning talking about that exact same issue, pretending that somehow his bill addresses something that did not need to be addressed in the first place, which somehow makes it more acceptable. I am wondering if he can explain why the Liberals continue to hide behind this issue of essential services when it really detracts from the need for legislation to prevent the use of replacement workers in strikes and lockouts in federal jurisdictions.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"807174\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, j'aimerais poser une question au d\u00e9put\u00e9 de <a data-HoCid=\"78983\" href=\"/politicians/mario-silva/\" title=\"Mario Silva\">Davenport</a>.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"807175\" data-originallang=\"en\">Au cours du d\u00e9bat sur le projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"2169666\" href=\"/bills/39-2/C-257/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Canada Labour Code (replacement workers)\">C-257</a>, la tentative pr\u00e9c\u00e9dente de faire adopter par la Chambre une modification au Code canadien du travail relative aux travailleurs de remplacement, j'ai remarqu\u00e9 que bon nombre de lib\u00e9raux ont pris pour pr\u00e9texte pour s'y opposer la question des services essentiels alors que, en fait, le Code canadien du travail traite maintenant de cette question dans l'article 87.4. En effet, il pr\u00e9voit une disposition selon laquelle les syndicats et l'employeur sont tenus de d\u00e9signer les services essentiels avant le d\u00e9but d'une gr\u00e8ve ou d'un lock-out et, en fait, accorde au ministre le pouvoir de demander au Conseil canadien des relations industrielles de d\u00e9signer quels sont les services essentiels dans cette situation.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"807176\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le Code canadien du travail actuel ne renferme donc aucune lacune en ce qui a trait aux services essentiels, mais c'est pourtant le pr\u00e9texte que certains lib\u00e9raux ont utilis\u00e9 la derni\u00e8re fois pour s'opposer \u00e0 ce projet de loi.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"807177\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je sais que, dans son intervention de ce matin, le d\u00e9put\u00e9 a longuement parl\u00e9 de cette m\u00eame question, pr\u00e9tendant que, pour une raison ou une autre, son projet de loi r\u00e8gle des probl\u00e8mes, qui n'avaient pas besoin d'\u00eatre r\u00e9gl\u00e9s en premier lieu, ce qui le rendrait en quelque sorte plus acceptable. Je me demande s'il peut expliquer pourquoi les lib\u00e9raux continuent de prendre pour pr\u00e9texte la question des services essentiels alors que, en r\u00e9alit\u00e9, cela ne fait que minimiser la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'adopter une mesure l\u00e9gislative pour pr\u00e9venir l'embauche de travailleurs de remplacement pendant les gr\u00e8ves et les lock-out dans les secteurs relevant du gouvernement f\u00e9d\u00e9ral.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2007/12/3/bill-siksay-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/bill-siksay/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1264/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "2238122",
"h1": {
"en": "Private Members' Business",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Canada Labour Code",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2007/12/3/",
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}