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Labour reacts to the shutdown of Parliament
Published: December 5th 2008
Source: Ken Georgetti - President of the Canadian
Labour Congress
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OTTAWA – The President of the Canadian Labour Congress
has reacted to today’s shutdown of Parliament by the Prime Minister,
saying it will cost people their jobs and delay much-needed action to
confront the economic crisis.
 “Our
country is standing on the edge of an economic crisis. People are losing
their jobs and watching their retirement savings evaporate. While
governments around the world are taking action to stimulate their
economies our Prime Minister has shut Parliament down. This is not what
the country needs. We need Parliament to get to work,” said Georgetti.
Georgetti compared the Prime Minister to an employer trying to avoid
signing a collective agreement.
“He’s acting just like one of those bad bosses when he can’t get his way
at the bargaining table. Instead of working for a solution, he shuts the
doors and locks everyone out. Our democratically-elected Members of
Parliament just got locked out of their jobs. The majority of them want
to go to work for the good of the country. The majority of them want to
support an economic plan to save jobs and protect our economy. Now they
can’t do that because the Prime Minister has shut our democracy down,”
says Georgetti.
Georgetti says that Canadians are going to lose their jobs because of
what the Prime Minister has done today.
“How many factories and mills are going to close? How many people are
going to lose their jobs? How many people are going to be denied
Employment Insurance and forced to watch their pensions disappear while
the Prime Minister plays politics? This is a sad day for Canada,” says
Georgetti.
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