iPolitics’s week-ahead column previews the final ten sitting days before the Commons rises for the summer, with the supply cycle, the estimates votes, and Louise Arbour’s installation as Governor General dominating the schedule. Among the items of note for the federal NDP, the column flags a Monday announcement in which “New Democrat leader Avi Lewis teams up with his party’s parliamentary leader, Don Davies, to provide a preview of the ‘new anti-scab legislation’ set to be introduced in the House of Commons later that same day.”
The proposed bill, according to the advisory cited, “would close a loophole in the Canada Labour Code that allows employers to use outside managers as replacement workers during strikes and lockouts.” United Steelworkers Canada national president Marty Warren and USW Local 1944 president Michael Phillips — whose Abbotsford, B.C. local “faced a lengthy labour dispute with Rogers over its use of managers as replacement workers” — were also expected to attend.
The same roundup notes that former New Democrat MP Charlie Angus was returning to Parliament Hill to call for “a full public inquiry” into alleged foreign interference connected to separatist organizing in Alberta. The bulk of the column covers government business: the Conservatives’ final supply-day motion, the disposition of the main and supplementary estimates, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s European tour, and committee appearances by Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne.
Source: iPolitics. Reproduced for reference under fair dealing (Copyright Act, s. 29).