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House Hansard - 150

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
January 31, 2023 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 150 - Jan/31/23
Ms. Monique Pauzé
  • Jan/31/23 11:31:54 a.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-35 
Mr. Speaker, it is true that there are problems. It is not all perfect. After the Parti Québécois and Pauline Marois put the system in place, successive governments did not always do the right thing, so to speak. Those governments were not as progressive. We need to be careful of that. That is exactly what the Bloomberg analysis says. We need to implement a system that is sustainable and improved from year to year. I heard many speeches by my opposition colleagues. They talked about a lack of staff. It is true that there are staffing shortages everywhere, so I am going to suggest a solution that will attract workers, and that is unionization. If child care workers are unionized, then we will not have so-called cheap labour. According to what I have read, the wages of non-unionized workers tend to be much lower, often close to or just over the provincial minimum wage. If we want to attract workers, then we need to think about giving them decent working conditions and wages. I would like to remind the House that 98% or 99% of child care workers are women.
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Context: House Hansard - 150 - Jan/31/23
Mr. Richard Cannings (South Okanagan—West Kootenay, NDP)
  • Jan/31/23 4:57:32 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-35 
Mr. Speaker, I am glad the member brought up the topic of the effect this would have on the labour force. Many businesses in my riding and across the country are looking for workers. In my riding in particular, and in many others, they cannot find workers because there is no place for new workers to live. The housing crisis has made it very difficult for them. One of the obvious solutions to that is to provide a better, more inclusive, more affordable, more accessible day care system that will allow the people who already have a place to live to get back into the workforce, which would then help these businesses move on and succeed in today's world.
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