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Canada demands U.S. end ‘right to work’ laws as part of NAFTA talks
Globe and Mail ^ | 9/5/2017 | Adrian Morrow

Posted on 09/05/2017 9:58:24 PM PDT by sparklite2

One group of negotiators spent all day Sunday working on the labour file, according to a schedule of the talks obtained by The Globe and Mail. One source familiar with the discussions said Canada wants the United States to pass a federal law stopping state governments from enacting right-to-work legislation; the source said the United States has not agreed to such a request.

Canada believes that lower labour standards in the United States and Mexico, including right to work, give those countries an unfair advantage in attracting jobs.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Canada; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: canada; chrystiafreeland; justintrudeau; nafta; righttowork; yeahright
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To: SmokingJoe
re> lower labor standards ??

I guess they don't have an OSHA in Canada.

21 posted on 09/06/2017 2:09:44 AM PDT by IC Ken
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To: sparklite2

Canada is not in a position to make demands. LOL!


22 posted on 09/06/2017 3:10:11 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob
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To: sparklite2
Canada believes that lower labour standards in the United States and Mexico, including right to work, give those countries an unfair advantage in attracting jobs.

I guess the Canucks miss the obvious solution - if right-to-work is an advantage, then maybe they should adopt it.....

23 posted on 09/06/2017 4:11:01 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: nopardons

Let me explain something to you. This is one of those “demands” that will be given up as negotiations progress. Even Little Pierre is smart enough to know this “demand” is impossible on its face.


24 posted on 09/06/2017 4:15:37 AM PDT by Former Proud Canadian (Islam delenda est.)
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To: sparklite2
Canada is extremely fascist anymore.

Trudie doing his globalist job.

25 posted on 09/06/2017 4:15:42 AM PDT by MarMema
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To: sparklite2

Right to work does not reflect lower working standards, however, it does mirror one of our esteemed images of personal FREEDOM—whether to belong to a union and pay union dues, or not.


26 posted on 09/06/2017 4:30:20 AM PDT by Saltmeat
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To: sparklite2

Note to our good neighbors up North: Guys, your government and negotiators have gone off the deep end. Y’all might wanna have a word with them.


27 posted on 09/06/2017 4:42:42 AM PDT by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: sparklite2

Poor Canada. But, they voted in the girliemen.


28 posted on 09/06/2017 4:59:11 AM PDT by polymuser (Enough is enough.)
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To: sparklite2
Canada, if you don't want NAFTA, just say​ so. The right to work states, will tell Trudeau to go F himself...
29 posted on 09/06/2017 5:00:50 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is DEPLORABLE :-))
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To: IC Ken

They have Oshawa though...


30 posted on 09/06/2017 5:01:10 AM PDT by Phil DiBasquette
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To: veracious

My govenrment needs to get bent.

Anyone want to adopt western Canada? We have all the resources and we’re by and large very conservative.


31 posted on 09/06/2017 5:10:39 AM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: sparklite2

Thanks for posting. This is good to watch because unions are so 1930s.. I call them union slavery states. Wonder what the businessman front union slavery state of ny will do?


32 posted on 09/06/2017 5:11:58 AM PDT by momincombatboots (White Stetsons up.. let's save our country!)
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To: sparklite2
Canada wants the United States to pass a federal law stopping state governments from enacting right-to-work legislation

Fixed it.

-PJ

33 posted on 09/06/2017 5:15:49 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: Bulwyf
The USA like Canada seems to get judged by what the corrupt media says and not what the people want.

BTW I was in Victoria on a stop from a cruise and loved the town. Alaska people were great also.

34 posted on 09/06/2017 5:16:58 AM PDT by IC Ken
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To: Bulwyf

Let’s take Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta in exchange for California, Oregon and Washington...


35 posted on 09/06/2017 5:17:39 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is DEPLORABLE :-))
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To: Bulwyf

Let’s take Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta in exchange for California, Oregon and Washington...


36 posted on 09/06/2017 5:17:40 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is DEPLORABLE :-))
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To: Sequoyah101

This is exactly why it was right to pull out of the TPP.
The use of trade treaties to say “you agreed to this trade treaty, now over-write your laws because we don’t like them, because of the treaty”.


37 posted on 09/06/2017 5:23:45 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: TBP

While the “right to work” is what is discussed in this article, their government also wants to push “gender equity” and other issues via the treaty.
When Ontario passed a bill that says you will use their pronouns or go to civil tribunals that don’t recognize presumption of innocence or due process, can order you to do anything short of jail and you get sent to courts that can send you to jail if you disobey ... this is backdoor implementation of social justice warrior demands if we let them use a trade treaty to alter our laws.


38 posted on 09/06/2017 5:25:55 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: sparklite2

Canada, sorry but as a federation of states, the states have the law if they want to be a right to work states, not the federal government. Why not try it...?


39 posted on 09/06/2017 6:02:20 AM PDT by ConservaTeen (Islam is Not the Religion of Peace, but The religion of Pedophilia...)
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