Mr. Coderre - check your job description

In yesterday's committee hearings on Bill C-257, a bill to ban the use of replacement workers during strikes, Liberal M.P. Denis Coderre made the assertion that "it is [his] job to ensure that we have as few strikes as possible."

I beg to differ. The job of a member of parliament is not to prevent strikes. Its to represent your constituents. That would be all of your constituents, Mr. Coderre. Not just the unions that backed you.

While we are on the topic of Bill 257 (another attempt to restrict the free exchange of goods & services courtesy of the Bloc), I stand firmly opposed to it. The conservatives were, of course, the only ones who were opposed it. We need to get this thing defeated at third reading. The Liberals, Bloc & NDP have never been about people working out their own agreements. They are addicted to legislative coersion and would never even consider that people might be capable of this without the "help" of a government.