Yet another waste of time and taxpayer dollars to pass a bill that is assured to fail.... stupid stupid Conservatives.

Bill C-525 Passes On Warning

The Senate last night passed a union decertification bill C-525 as one Conservative, the former corporate counsel for Irving Oil Ltd., suggested lawmakers had failed in their duty.

“The bill is flawed and defective,” said Senator John Wallace (Conservative-N.B.); “It goes to the heart of the fundamental responsibilities that each of us as Senators swore to undertake.” Wallace said rejection of the bill “goes to the very heart of why the Senate exists at all”; “I am unable and cannot support Bill C-525,” he said.

The Act To Amend The Canada Labour Code lowers the threshold of votes needed to trigger a decertification ballot from the current 50 percent to 40. And it repeals a decades-old membership card check system for certifying and disbanding unions in favour of secret balloting by employees.

The Senate constitutional affairs committee earlier discovered the bill was so badly drafted it contains mistaken clauses that inadvertently restrict the powers of the Public Service Labour Relations & Employment Board. Catherine Ebbs, board chair, said the error “is not trivial” and affects the panel’s ability to certify new bargaining agents.

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