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Finance Minister Joe Oliver said Wednesday he believes relaxing labour laws to make it easier to lay off workers would help spur economic growth.
The Conservatives insist he wasn’t talking about Canada. But party officials gave conflicting statements Thursday as to which country he actually was speaking about.
At a G7 meeting of finance ministers in Dresden, Germany, Oliver voiced his support for loosening labour laws, but acknowledged “that's what gets people demonstrating in the streets," according to a report by Reuters.
Harper said that Oliver was talking about the situation in Greece.
Oliver’s office maintained the minister was speaking about labour laws in France
The Reuters reporter who wrote the story tweeted Thursday that Oliver wasn't speaking about a specific country.
The president of the Canadian Labour Congress said Thursday that Oliver is in no position to advise other countries about labour relations given the Tories’ weak track record on the issue and on job creation.
“In the context of unemployment, workers need to have a little bit of security and requiring employers to give adequate notice of a layoff is the minimum when you’re going to lose your job, whether it’s here or around the world,” said Hassan Yussuff.
‘For the minister to say we need to relax those rules, [that] shows little regard for the insecurity [workers are] facing right now in our country and throughout the world.”
Few Canadians realize it, but Labour Day is as Canadian as maple bacon.
It all began in 1872, when the Toronto Typographical Union went on strike to demand a nine-hour workday. When Globe and Mail chief George Brown had the protest organizers arrested, Prime Minister John A. Macdonald passed a law legalizing labour unions. Thus, a Conservative prime minister became a hero to the working class, and Canada became among the first countries to limit the workday, doing so decades before the U.S. The typographers' marches became an annual event, eventually being adopted by the U.S., becoming the modern day Labour Day.
Tories Scramble After Joe Oliver's Call For Looser Labour Laws At G7
Finance Minister Joe Oliver said Wednesday he believes relaxing labour laws to make it easier to lay off workers would help spur economic growth.
The Conservatives insist he wasn’t talking about Canada. But party officials gave conflicting statements Thursday as to which country he actually was speaking about.
At a G7 meeting of finance ministers in Dresden, Germany, Oliver voiced his support for loosening labour laws, but acknowledged “that's what gets people demonstrating in the streets," according to a report by Reuters.
Harper said that Oliver was talking about the situation in Greece.
Oliver’s office maintained the minister was speaking about labour laws in France
The Reuters reporter who wrote the story tweeted Thursday that Oliver wasn't speaking about a specific country.
The president of the Canadian Labour Congress said Thursday that Oliver is in no position to advise other countries about labour relations given the Tories’ weak track record on the issue and on job creation.
“In the context of unemployment, workers need to have a little bit of security and requiring employers to give adequate notice of a layoff is the minimum when you’re going to lose your job, whether it’s here or around the world,” said Hassan Yussuff.
‘For the minister to say we need to relax those rules, [that] shows little regard for the insecurity [workers are] facing right now in our country and throughout the world.”
Few Canadians realize it, but Labour Day is as Canadian as maple bacon.
It all began in 1872, when the Toronto Typographical Union went on strike to demand a nine-hour workday. When Globe and Mail chief George Brown had the protest organizers arrested, Prime Minister John A. Macdonald passed a law legalizing labour unions. Thus, a Conservative prime minister became a hero to the working class, and Canada became among the first countries to limit the workday, doing so decades before the U.S. The typographers' marches became an annual event, eventually being adopted by the U.S., becoming the modern day Labour Day.
Tories Scramble After Joe Oliver's Call For Looser Labour Laws At G7