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House Hansard - 317

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 24, 2024 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 317 - May/24/24
Mr. Rick Perkins (South Shore—St. Margarets, CPC)
  • May/24/24 10:49:06 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I have heard a lot from the illiterate Liberal economic policy on the other side with regard to this and other things. One thing I find fascinating is that the Liberals take one position but do something else. While they have expressed themselves about the bill, they are allowing foreign replacement workers at the Stellantis plant in Windsor. They are so afraid to prove how they have protected Canadian jobs that they will not release their contracts and prove us wrong. They clearly have not protected these jobs, since we have foreign replacement workers. I have read their contracts. What is the member's view on foreign replacement workers in relation to the bill?
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Context: House Hansard - 317 - May/24/24
Mr. Rick Perkins
  • May/24/24 10:57:23 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the interventions from the NDP-Liberals are interesting. They go about an inch deep on a lot of issues. Let me provide a little more colour and give the member an opportunity to do this on the particular issue of foreign replacement workers in Stellantis. Canada's Building Trades Unions have condemned the government for its use of foreign replacement workers for non-proprietary jobs at Stellantis, such as forklift driver jobs. They have over 138 members sitting at home, unemployed, in Windsor, while the government allows Stellantis to bring in over 900 construction workers, most of them in non-proprietary positions. Could the member comment on why she thinks that the government talks out of one side of its mouth when its members are in the chamber on legislation, but when it is administering the law, it actually does the opposite?
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