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Bill C-377 is an invasion of privacy

Posted: Friday, 17 May 2013

Chris Vander Doelen, a writer for the Windsor Star, recently wrote about the Conservatives' anti-union Bill C-377, in glowing terms. The bill, which singles out unions to provide detailed information about their financial transactions, has now passed second… Read More

Temporary Foreign Worker Program: Conservative government must fix what it broke

Posted: Tuesday, 16 April 2013

As published in the Toronto Star, April 16, 2013 Last year the government announced changes to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP)Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP), indicating that it would fast-track the processing of employer applications f… Read More

Fraser Institute fat cats

Posted: Tuesday, 9 April 2013

The Fraser Institute recently released a study claiming that public sector workers are paid too much and this information was carried widely in the Canadian media. But Ottawa Citizen reporter Glen McGregor, using public records, discovered that the Fraser I… Read More

Unions Necessary

Posted: Tuesday, 12 March 2013

A number of newspapers in the Sun Media chain recently carried an opinion piece by Quebec-based freelancer Eric Duhaime claiming that unions should be abolished. Duhaime is a die hard critic of unions who is frequently accorded space in Sun Media papers. Ke… Read More

CEOs take tax breaks, but don’t create jobs

Posted: Wednesday, 30 January 2013

As published in the Toronto Star, January 28, 2013 Corporate executives in Canada will be dancing in their suites to celebrate Corporate Tax Freedom Day on Jan. 30. A research study by the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) — called What Did Corporate Tax Cu… Read More

Firms without pensions get free lunch

Posted: Friday, 11 January 2013

As published in the Financial Post, January 11, 2013 Re: "Take CPP increase right off the stove," Dan Kelly, Jan. 7 Dan Kelly should get out of the kitchen if he can't stand the heat. Two-thirds of small businesses say they won't even consider offering to… Read More

Bill C-377 a.k.a. The Expensive, Unfair to Unions Bill

Posted: Wednesday, 12 December 2012

As posted online in the Huffington Post, December 12, 2012 The Conservative government has a disturbing habit of introducing significant changes to Canadian public policy by sleight of hand. One way is by using 400-page omnibus budget bills to make legisla… Read More

PRPPs: A model or a phantom?

Posted: Tuesday, 4 December 2012

As published in the National Post, Saturday, December 1, 2012 Re: "Who's killing the PRPP pension fix?," Terence Corcoran, Nov. 20 Terence Corcoran laments the likely demise of PRPPs, even before they get off the ground. He blames a long list of critics, … Read More

Privacy commissioner Stoddart raises serious privacy concerns about Bill C-377

Posted: Tuesday, 20 November 2012

As published in the Windsor Star, Monday, November 19, 2012 Re: Union transparency debated, opinion column, by Chris Vander Doelen, Nov. 12. Chris Vander Doelen is curiously selective in his Nov. 12 column about the House of Commons Finance Committee hea… Read More

Ottawa’s employment insurance changes hasty and unwise

Posted: Wednesday, 31 October 2012

As posted on www.thestar.com on October 31, 2012 The federal government introduced a 425-page bill in the spring to ram changes through Parliament on everything from employment insurance to the age of retirement. The government refused all pleas to split t… Read More

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