On June 4th a Bill will be introduced to the Canadian House of Commons called C-38.
“What was submitted as a budget bill to the Canadian House of Commons will introduce, amend or repeal nearly 70 federal laws.Over 13,000 websites across Canada are planning to protest with a June 4 blackout to highlight their cause.
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A line buried deep in the document also ominously states, “The Fair Wages and Hours of Labour Act is repealed.” The change would eliminate a 1985 law forcing companies bidding on federal contracts to pay “fair wages and overtime.”
Opposition New Democratic Party MP Pat Martin called the proposal a “solution without a problem.”
“The only conclusion I can come up with is that it’s a war on labor and the left. It’s what the Americans did with the right-to-work states and the end result is $8 or $9 an hour is now the average wage in places like North Carolina,” the Canadian Press cites him as saying.
The bill will also overhaul the country’s immigration rules, its temporary foreign workers program and its employment insurance system. In a further blow to the middle class, provisions in the legislation would effectively raise the country’s retirement age from 65 to 67 in a decade’s time.” [1] Source
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[2] *The Green Party has a petition up, for those who have not signed it. *
Their top 5 reasons to oppose the Bill
-It repeals the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act and introduces a weaker version, without a single day of hearings before the environment committee.
-It removes protection of endangered species and their habitat, when approving pipeline projects, by amending the Species at Risk Act and the Navigable Waters Protection Act.
-It guts the Fisheries Act by removing provisions for habitat protection.
-It repeals the Kyoto Protocol Implementation Act.
-It eliminates the National Round Table on Environment and Economy.
On June 4th a Bill will be introduced to the Canadian House of Commons called C-38.
“What was submitted as a budget bill to the Canadian House of Commons will introduce, amend or repeal nearly 70 federal laws.Over 13,000 websites across Canada are planning to protest with a June 4 blackout to highlight their cause.
…
A line buried deep in the document also ominously states, “The Fair Wages and Hours of Labour Act is repealed.” The change would eliminate a 1985 law forcing companies bidding on federal contracts to pay “fair wages and overtime.”
Opposition New Democratic Party MP Pat Martin called the proposal a “solution without a problem.”
“The only conclusion I can come up with is that it’s a war on labor and the left. It’s what the Americans did with the right-to-work states and the end result is $8 or $9 an hour is now the average wage in places like North Carolina,” the Canadian Press cites him as saying.
The bill will also overhaul the country’s immigration rules, its temporary foreign workers program and its employment insurance system. In a further blow to the middle class, provisions in the legislation would effectively raise the country’s retirement age from 65 to 67 in a decade’s time.” [1] Source
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[2] *The Green Party has a petition up, for those who have not signed it. *
Their top 5 reasons to oppose the Bill
-It repeals the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act and introduces a weaker version, without a single day of hearings before the environment committee.
-It removes protection of endangered species and their habitat, when approving pipeline projects, by amending the Species at Risk Act and the Navigable Waters Protection Act.
-It guts the Fisheries Act by removing provisions for habitat protection.
-It repeals the Kyoto Protocol Implementation Act.
-It eliminates the National Round Table on Environment and Economy.
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