Steelworkers praise MP for standing up against softwood sellout

TORONTO, Nov. 9 /CNW/ - United Steelworkers' (USW) National Director Ken Neumann says NDP MP Peter Julian (Burnaby New Westminster) deserves praise and gratitude from all Canadians for his attempt to put forward amendments to Bill C-24, the legislation to enable the deeply flawed Softwood Lumbe...

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Published inCanada NewsWire p. 1
Format Newsletter
LanguageEnglish
Published Ottawa PR Newswire Association LLC 09.11.2006
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Julian, Peter
Neumann, Ken
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Summary:TORONTO, Nov. 9 /CNW/ - United Steelworkers' (USW) National Director Ken Neumann says NDP MP Peter Julian (Burnaby New Westminster) deserves praise and gratitude from all Canadians for his attempt to put forward amendments to Bill C-24, the legislation to enable the deeply flawed Softwood Lumber Agreement. "Julian was doing the next best thing to stopping the deal completely," said Neumann about the MP's 98 amendments brought before the House of Commons Standing Committee on International Trade this week. "But in a decidedly undemocratic move, the committee passed bogus rules preventing Julian from talking more than three minutes on each amendment and forced all amendments to be dealt with at the same time. In the end, the committee refused to let him speak at all on the amendments.